[1] Research Experience

2022-2023 Schmidt Science Fellow (SSF), MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA

Project: Integrated Carbon Capture and Utilization at the Nexus of Technology, Business, and Policy


2021-2022 Impact Fellow, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA

MIT Climate & Sustainability Consortium (MCSC) 

Project: Benchmarking and Evaluating Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR)


2016-2021 Graduate Research Assistant, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

Integrated Micro & Nano-Fluidic Systems Laboratory (Erickson Lab)

Principal Investigator: Prof. David Erickson

Committee Members: Prof. Emmanuel Giannelis; Prof. Saurabh Mehta; Prof. Tobias Hanrath

Project 1: HI-Light – A Solar-thermocatalytic Reactor for CO2 Reduction [Link]

Project 2: FeverPhone – Fever Diagnosis with a Mobile Device [Link]


2015-2016 Visiting Graduate Research Assistant, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA

Mesoscale Nuclear Materials Laboratory (Short Lab)

Inviter: Prof. Mujid Kazimi (Member of National Academy of Engineering)

Principal Investigator: Prof. Michael Short

Project: Multilayer Composite Fuel Cladding & Oxidation Experiments [Link 1] [Link 2]


2014-2015 Graduate Research Assistant, McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

McGill Metals Processing Centre

Principal Investigator: Prof. Roderick Guthrie (FRSC, FCAE, FCIM)

Project: An in-situ, on-line Aqueous Particle Sensor (APS) for Micro-bubble Detection [Link]


2013-2014 Research Assistant, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

MOE Key Laboratory of Thermal-Fluid Science and Engineering

Principal Investigator: Prof. Yaling He (Member of Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Project: Microbial Fuel Cells (MFC) with Bio-cathodes