Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Built products from 0-to-1, developed operations, and technology development for functional fiber and fabric systems used in physiological monitoring, defense, medical, and wearable applications. - Lead product strategy, technical roadmap development, and commercialization planning. - Drive end-to-end execution across R&D, rapid prototyping, manufacturing scale-up, lab automation, instrumentation, process control, and validation. - Partner across engineering, research, and operations teams to move technologies from basic research concept through field testing, production readiness, and real-world deployment. - Shipped 2,000+ fiber-device products.
Revolutionizing water filtration with a membrane which uses the power of light and nanomaterial coating to overcome the incessant problem of fouling - Interviewed and recorded customers’ experiences, expectations, and needs to define initial specific feature designs of our product. - Established viable business models to win the 2018 MIT Clean Energy Competition- Category of improving energy usage. Covered in news outlet: https://news.mit.edu/2018/mit-clean-energy-prize-rewards-student-innovation-0417 - Developed a working product, with the team, within a full product cycle in a short time period of 3 months to win the 2018 MIT MADMEC Prototyping Competition. Covered in news outlet: https://news.mit.edu/2018/madmec-finals-materials-science-prototypes-1011 - Invited to pitch to venture capitalists and energy experts in the 2018 Cleantech National University Prize.
Working in Prof Yoel Fink 's lab on multimaterial functional fibers: Technical Experience: -Creating artificially intelligent (AI) wearables and fabrics of computing capabilities. -Managed teams of computer scientists, material engineers, mechanical and electrical engineers. -Produced and tested materials and electronics towards wearables for physiological sensing and health monitoring -Hardware prototyping including microcontrollers, analog and digital devices, signal processing, and amplification of signal to noise, and coding in C++, python and javascript. - Design PCB flexible and rigid boards for sensor interfaces. - 3D printing of Novel Devices for Internet of things and wearables. (Designed 3D CAD/CAM structures in Solidworks, and simulated heat flow and mechanical deformation via ABAQUS.) -Lithography and selective laser-induced etching of flexible devices - Next-Generation Fibers as neural probes and scaffolds for the brain and spinal cord. (Performed Dynamic mechanical simulation using ABAQUS). - Touch, acoustic MEM sensors, actuators, microphones of high sensitivities - Optics-related projects including fabrication of novel photonic, retroreflective, and multi-functional electronic fibers. -Stretchable light-emitting devices
Leadership Experiences - Managed and worked with over 15 undergraduate interns across departments of computer science, material science, electrical engineering and mechanical engineering. 90% of our undergraduate interns managed to be part of our published papers and have succeeded to find relevant jobs and internships. - Spearheaded successful new & renewing grants with funding agencies such as National Science Foundation & Institute of Soldier Nanotechnology (Department of Defense). - Led cross-research collaborations with PIs from Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Biomedical Engineering, Natick Laboratory, Lincoln Laboratory and Advanced Functional Fabrics of America. - Technology Recruiting Committee for 2017 MIT Energy Ventures. Responsibilities include reaching out to engineers for their interest in commercializing technologies, scheduling pitch presentations, and team formation. - Environment Health System Safety officer for research group. Responsibilities include monthly safety briefing, safety training for newcomers, lab organization and clean-up, and weekly safety check.
Chemistry Department. -Worked on a project titled "Lithium and Hydrogen intercalation of Molybdenum Disulfide (MoS2)." -XRD analysis on the effects of the intercalation of Li and H atoms on the interlayer spacing of MoS2 , as well as the formation of the different phases of MoS2 - the 1T and 2H phases.
Physics Department International University Physics Competition - International Winner out of 57. - Wrote a code on numerical analysis via C++ on the dynamics of Table tennis balls with varying sizes and strokes. Paper and code released in http://www.uphysicsc.com/2012contest.html Research: -Worked on two projects titled " Probing Sn segregation and diffusion in GeSn/Ge Epitaxial Thin Film" and " Kinetics of the formation of Sn wires upon post-growth annealing of GeSn thin film on Ge (111) via in-situ optical microscopy" under the supervision of Prof Tok Eng Soon. -Well-skilled in the following experimental techniques: Growth-Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE). Post-Growth treatments-Rapid Thermal Annealing (RTP).Characterization- AFM , XRD, Reciprocal Space Mapping(RSM), XPS, TEM, SEM and OM.
NUS Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Silicon NanoDevice Laboratory - Took charge in doing several successful Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) growth runs for the group and wrote the general operating manual of MBE for the group. - Programmed a simulation of the non-uniformity growth front of the effusion molecular beams via MATHEMATICA.
- Managed over 25 medics across different companies of an army regiment. Responsibilities include scheduling medical cover sessions, medical training sessions, and daily briefings for the medics. - Represented the medical team for reports to senior management officers of the regiment.