Education & Experience

I am a Senior Engineering Manager and Project Coordinator at UC Berkeley in the Mobile Sensing Lab with Professor Alexandre Bayen. I was previously a Senior Data Scientist at Uber with formal training as a computational research scientist.

Prior to joining Uber, I completed my postdoctoral appointment at Sandia National Laboratories - California and immersive data science training at Zipfian Academy (now Galvanize, Inc.). My research focused on computational approaches to materials science and mechanical engineering problems. I have studied many materials phenomena and material behavior through molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, fluids density functional theory, and machine learning.

My current interests are in autonomous driving, connected cars, routing logistics, traffic simulation, and other vehicular technologies.

In addition to a broad background in math, science, and engineering disciplines, I have extensive experience in numerous python libraries, MPI parallel computing, various versions of SQL, machine learning algorithms, web crawlers, etc. I have experience using Ubuntu, Red Hat, Chrome (dev mode), Windows, and Mac operating systems.

EDUCATION

RICE UNIVERSITY

Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering, May 2011

Thesis: A Multiscale Model of the Enhanced Heat Transfer in a CNT-Nanofluid System

Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering, May 2009

Thesis: A Scattered Data Approximation Tool to Map Carbon Nanotube Dispersion to the Processing Parameters in Polymer Nanocomposites

Advisors: Dr. Enrique V. Barrera and Dr. Andrew J. Meade, Jr.

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY

Bachelor of Science in Engineering Physics, May 2006

EXPERIENCE

UC BERKELEY

Sr Engineering Manager & Project Coordinator (Dec 2019 - current)

UBER

Sr Data Scientist (Jan 2016 - Sept 2019)

Data Scientist II (Sept 2014 - Jan 2016)

ZIPFIAN ACADEMY

Data Science Fellow (May 2014 - August 2014)

· Gaining extensive experience in data science tools

· Capstone Project: Clustering driver behavior and predicting personalized optimal directions from archived GPS traces

SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES - CALIFORNIA

Thermal/Fluids Science & Engineering

Mentors: Dr. Jeremy A. Templeton and Dr. Bryan M. Wong

Visiting Researcher (October 2013 - present)

Postdoctoral Appointee (May 2011 - October 2013)

Visiting Researcher (September 2009 - May 2011)

Student Intern (May 2009 - August 2009; May 2010 - August 2010)

· Simulating the electric double layer with varying degrees of fidelity using MD and f-DFT

· Building atomistic-to-continuum (AtC) MD models of systems with long range physics

· Beta-testing of LAMMPS’ AtC package with focus on heat transfer in fluids

· First principles quantum calculations of nanomaterials

RICE UNIVERSITY

Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Advisors: Dr. Enrique V. Barrera and Dr. Andrew J. Meade, Jr.

Graduate Assistant (August 2006 - May 2011)

· Investigated heat transfer properties of carbon nanotubes in vacuum and in enhanced heat transfer nanofluids

· Applied knowledge-based analytical tool for experimental design of functionalized nanocomposites

· Served as teaching assistant, lab teaching assistant, course grader, and occasional lecturer

UC BERKELEY

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Advisor: Dr. Lydia L. Sohn

Assistant Researcher (June 2006 - July 2006)

· Designed fabrication process flow of MEMS solenoid coils for the On-Chip Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Project

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY

Precision Engineering Group

Advisors: Dr. Theodore V. Vorburger and Mr. Joseph N. Fu

Guest Researcher (June 2003 - August 2003; June 2004 - August 2004

Student Volunteer (June 2002 - July 2002)

· Calibrated 6-axis nano-positioning stage of Calibrated Atomic Force Microscope (C-AFM)

· Investigated measurement discrepancies between two modes of interferometric microscopy