RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Graduate Student Researcher, University of California, Los Angeles Sept. 2012-Present
Advisor: Prof. Robert Candler (Sensors & Technology Laboratory at UCLA)
Investigating intrinsic energy loss mechanisms in nano/micromechanical resonators. Research focuses on energy loss due to phonon scattering in silicon resonators including theoretical models to account for crystalline anisotropy and mode-shape, experimental verification of phonon-electron losses, and scaling of mechanical loss in sub-micron thick devices where surface effects begin to contribute.
Graduate Student Intern, HRL Laboratories LLC, Malibu, CA June 2012-Sept. 2012
Sensors and Materials Laboratory
Design, fabrication and optimization of drive and sense electrodes for a MEMS vibratory-rate gyroscope utilizing non-contact electric gradient forces.
Graduate Student Researcher, University of California, Los Angeles July 2011-June 2012
Advisor: Prof. Robert Candler (Sensors & Technology Laboratory at UCLA)
Modeling and experimental verification of the nonlinear damping response of MEMS resonators immersed in shear-thickening fluids (STFs), revealing the potential to use such fluids for passive vibration isolation and shock protection of microscale sensors and actuators.
Undergraduate Research Intern, Stanford University March 2010-June 2011
Advisor: Prof. Roger Howe
Developed test and characterization procedures (including a DRAM configuration test scheme) for assessing the reliability and performance of ALD-coated NEM relays for low-power logic and memory applications.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Server Yields and Characterization Group, IBM, Hopewell Junction, NY June 2009-Sept. 2009
Undergraduate Intern
UNIX (AIX) and SAS automation of statistical analysis on eDRAM yields for IBM’s Power7 server chip.
Materials Characterization Group, IBM, Hopewell Junction, NY June 2008-Sept. 2008
Undergraduate Intern
Angular Resolved X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (ARXPS) of High-κ gate dielectrics.
Graduate Student Researcher, University of California, Los Angeles Sept. 2012-Present
Advisor: Prof. Robert Candler (Sensors & Technology Laboratory at UCLA)
Investigating intrinsic energy loss mechanisms in nano/micromechanical resonators. Research focuses on energy loss due to phonon scattering in silicon resonators including theoretical models to account for crystalline anisotropy and mode-shape, experimental verification of phonon-electron losses, and scaling of mechanical loss in sub-micron thick devices where surface effects begin to contribute.
Graduate Student Intern, HRL Laboratories LLC, Malibu, CA June 2012-Sept. 2012
Sensors and Materials Laboratory
Design, fabrication and optimization of drive and sense electrodes for a MEMS vibratory-rate gyroscope utilizing non-contact electric gradient forces.
Graduate Student Researcher, University of California, Los Angeles July 2011-June 2012
Advisor: Prof. Robert Candler (Sensors & Technology Laboratory at UCLA)
Modeling and experimental verification of the nonlinear damping response of MEMS resonators immersed in shear-thickening fluids (STFs), revealing the potential to use such fluids for passive vibration isolation and shock protection of microscale sensors and actuators.
Undergraduate Research Intern, Stanford University March 2010-June 2011
Advisor: Prof. Roger Howe
Developed test and characterization procedures (including a DRAM configuration test scheme) for assessing the reliability and performance of ALD-coated NEM relays for low-power logic and memory applications.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Server Yields and Characterization Group, IBM, Hopewell Junction, NY June 2009-Sept. 2009
Undergraduate Intern
UNIX (AIX) and SAS automation of statistical analysis on eDRAM yields for IBM’s Power7 server chip.
Materials Characterization Group, IBM, Hopewell Junction, NY June 2008-Sept. 2008
Undergraduate Intern
Angular Resolved X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (ARXPS) of High-κ gate dielectrics.