Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
Most recently a lecturer of chemistry at California State University, Channel Islands Previously a process engineer in back-end dielectrics at Intel's Fab32 factory Prior teaching experience as a private tutor, UCLA chemistry teaching assistant My research passion is electronic nose development at the interface of physics, chemistry, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering and computer science using piezoelectric resonators as information-rich, real-time, low-cost chemical sensors.
general chemistry I and II lecture and lab organic chemistry I lab quantitative analysis lab
Cleanroom experience (class 10) and familiarity with commercial statistical software packages (JMP), defect analysis (KLArity) and data mining (SQLPathfinder) working on 32nm/22nm technology nodes Led a small team of 4-6 technicians in a fast-paced manufacturing environment as only engineer on back-end night shift and worked cross shift to attend engineering meetings. Wrote daily reports to group and senior management detailing area status. Selected for advanced engineering training and most advanced technology
Teaching assistant for undergraduate chemistry classes including: general chemistry lecture CH 14B, CH 20AB (3 terms - one each), general chemistry lab CH 14BL/CL,30AL/BL (4 terms - one each), thermodynamics CH 110A (1 term), physical chemistry lab CH 114 (3 terms). Guest lecturer for upper division undergraduate chemistry class: physical chemistry lab CH114, calculation of experimental error (2 terms).
Developed a new method to probe piezoelectric resonators for sensor applications using computer controlled electronics. Co-developed an acoustic sensor system for microparticle detection in laminar microfluidic flows Imaged dental enamel erosion at the nanoscale with optical profilometry Explored convective heat -> electrical energy conversion using pyroelectric LiNbO3
Piezoelectric quartz tuning forks and piezoresistive MEMS cantilevers for use as chemical sensors
Library front desk/circulation at Millikan, Sherman Fairchild, Danbey Paid participant in experimental economics lab, fMRI brain activity scans, sleep deprivation experiments Atheneaum faculty club server
Batch chromatography of water in an attempt to separate nuclear spin isomers. Thermal isolation of column fractions and characterization by NMR. Continued experiments, analysis, reports for a few months into the next academic year. Ultimately unsuccessful at separating the nuclear spin isomers by chromatography...
Sonolysis and ozonation of oxalic acid solutions. Characterization of samples by HPLC. Published research in Caltech Undergraduate Research Journal (CURJ). Directed by graduate student Tim Lesko in the lab of Prof. Michael Hoffmann