Optical and electronic nanomaterials engineering for light emitting, light harvesting, and human-machine interface applications. 

At a glance overview:

  • PhD, NanoEngineering UC San Diego, M.S. Physics BGSU, B.S. Physics BGSU
  • NDSEG Fellow, DoD sponsored PhD research
  • 8 years of research in semiconductor nanomaterials and solid-state devices. 
  • 18 publications: 7 first-author papers and 2 textbook chapters
  • Research, development, and project management
  • Business/entrepreneurship, NSF iCorp program, and pitch competitions
  • Founder, manager, and fundraiser of outreach and engineering organizations
  • Lead in over 50 K-12, undergrad, and graduate student STEM outreach events
  • Lab representation to international research communities, government agencies, investors,industry leaders (executives from Bowing, Qualcomm, Sony, Samsung, First Solar, Amazon)

Awards

NDSEG Fellow

In 2014 I was honored to receive the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship. 

In 2014 I was honored to receive the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship. 

 

ARCS Scholar

 
 

 

In 2015 I was awarded the Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Scholarship. The San Diego Chapter of the ARCS Foundation is one of 16 chapters that are dedicated to helping highly motivated students in the United States by providing scholar awards in the natural sciences, medicine, and engineering. It also creates a community across generations and disciplines, bringing together some of San Diego's most active and influential science, engineering, and business innovators. 

Pitch and research competition victories

Jacobs School of Eng. Pitch Competition

1st place at the 2016 UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering Research Pitch Competition out of 230 graduate student contestants. Click the image for a link to the UCSD news article! 

1st place at the 2016 UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering Research Pitch Competition out of 230 graduate student contestants. Click the image for a link to the UCSD news article! 

UCSD Center for Wearable Sensors Pitch Competition

1st place at the UCSD Center for Wearable Sensors Elevator Pitch Competion, a 90 second research pitch to communicate research progress and potential to industry leaders. Click the image for a link to the UCSD news article!

1st place at the UCSD Center for Wearable Sensors Elevator Pitch Competion, a 90 second research pitch to communicate research progress and potential to industry leaders. Click the image for a link to the UCSD news article!

UC Carbon Slam

Finalist in the UC wide Carbon Slam, where two champions were selected from each UC to pitch and compete in Palo Alto. 

Finalist in the UC wide Carbon Slam, where two champions were selected from each UC to pitch and compete in Palo Alto. 

Acknowledgments

My deepest appreciation and respects to my advisors, Prof. Darren Lipomi and Prof. Mikhail Zamkov, and to my colleges and friends in the Lipomi Lab, particularly Dr. Suchol Savagatrup (post doc, MIT), Dr. Adam Printz (post doc, Stanford), and Dr. Alex Zaretski (Founder and CTO, Grolltex Inc.), and Samuel Root (PhD Candidate, UCSD), and to my apprentices Rachel Miller, Mare Ivana Diaz, Kevin Crowley. It was an absolute honor starting-up the lab with you all.