Experience

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  Clean soul - clean city

  May 2018 - Jun 2018

  Engineering intern

  - 🛢️ Developed a process to neutralize recycled fuel, ensuring compliance with national environmental regulations.- 🛠️ Collaborated with a team of engineering interns to design and build a cubic meter bio composting unit.- 🤝 Serves as a liaison for future international interns.

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  North carolina state university

  Oct 2020 - Aug 2021

  Research assistant

  - ☀️ Fabricated solution-processed hybrid organic-inorganic solar cells to guide optimization of photovoltaic devices toward industry-relevant efficiencies.- 🖥️ Fabricated organic light-emitting diodes for low-cost, high-efficiency power smart displays.- 🦠 Used nanoimprinting technology to fabricate bio-mimicked nanopatterned substrates and study their optical and electrical properties. Modeled nanopatterned substrate design using AutoCAD.- 🎛️ Utilized nano thin film deposition techniques including high vacuum thermal and plasma-assisted PVD, and solution processing. Show less

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  University of north carolina at chapel hill and nc state university

  Jan 2021 - Aug 2021

  Research assistant

  - 💧 Led a collaborative research initiative between UNC and NC State, focusing on the development of a hydration monitor with potential for enhancing athletic performance and providing vital support for sickle cell patients.- 🧪 Designed and implemented tests to simulate real-life scenarios, steering reliability towards clinical stages.

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  3m

  Aug 2021 - now

  - 📊 Leading research methodology, experimental design, project and budget management, and co-managing the programmatic strategy of multi-year cross-functional 3M-critical research initiatives. Achievements include generating $15M in sales, $100k/yr in savings, authoring three invention disclosures, one publication, with two additional publications nearing completion.- 🤝 Collaborating frequently with executives and lawyers to develop intellectual property strategy, including facilitating external disclosures (conference presentations, white papers, and peer-reviewed publications). - 🌐 Fostering interdisciplinary research collaborations and business growth through strategic partnerships with academic institutions, industry leaders (e.g., UMich, Apple), and startups, both domestically and internationally.- 🚀 Driving concurrent advancement in foundational understanding and product innovation through the translation and iteration of novel discoveries into next-generation models, user-based design improvement, and scale-up. - 📈 Leveraging global market trends to identify emerging technologies and perform comprehensive data-driven assessments, including environmental, economic (CapEx and OpEx), and technical impact.- 👨‍🔬 Supervising technicians and junior researchers while also overseeing environmental health and safety compliance and logistics operations for two research laboratories.- 🌱 Spearheading creative sustainability initiatives as the general advisor for the Technology Forum Climate Chapter. Show less

  • Advanced Research Engineer

    Oct 2023 - now

  • Research Engineer

    Aug 2021 - Oct 2023