About Me

Research Specialties:

Particle Suspensions in Viscous Fluids: Analysis of elastic and rigid fibers in viscous fluids for tunable flow properties in engineering and biomedical applications. Computational Modeling/Simulations: Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) & fluid-structure interactions (FSI)

Research Interests:

Fluid mechanics; biological fluid dynamics; transport phenomena; Multiphysics computational modeling and simulations; mathematical modeling; algorithm development

Career Summary:

Graduate School

I was a Chemical Engineering Ph.D. Candidate at University of California, Davis advised by Dr. Harishankar Manikantan. My current research focuses on examining the relationship between slender/elongated particles (biopolymers such as actin filaments /microtubules, paper pulp fibers, rigid nylon fibers, etc.) and the surrounding viscous fluid.

Before Graduate School

I obtained my B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering in 2017 from North Carolina State University (NCSU) with an emphasis on Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Sciences. I developed technical skills associated with biologics manufacturing such as cell culture, protein chromatography purification, etc. I worked summer internships at engineering consulting/life science companies such as Integrated Project Services (IPS), Seqirus, and Biogen.

After graduating, I spent 2 years at the National Institute of Aging in Baltimore, MD in the Laboratory of Immunology & Molecular Biology. My Principal Investigator was Dr. Nan-ping Weng. Utilizing bioinformatics techniques, I developed computational tools to process Next-Generation Sequencing data from methods such as bulk RNA-Seq, ChIP-Seq, ATAC-Seq, scRNA-Seq, etc. Additionally, I employed statistical, and data science techniques to determine how the immune system changes with aging.

Projects

For a brief summary of and access to my publicly available projects I worked on at the NIA & graduate school, please visit my Portfolio Page!