Experience

University of Arizona

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Jan 2015 - Present

  Design of Wireless Implantable MTJ Flow sensor● Gained hands-on laboratory R&D and product development experience during the design of a prototype wireless electromechanical implantable Cerebrospinal microfluidic flow sensor for hydrocephalus patients.● Used high precision design and prototyping tools to develop creative solutions for novel sensing systems such as MTJ magnetic field sensors and MEMS micromachining for the medical device industry. ● Performed fluid, thermal and structural analysis using Ansys Finite Element Analysis software to investigate the feasibility of the mechanical system design.● Hands-on MEMS micromachining experience in a class 100 clean room environment including photolithography, evaporation, etching, wafer dicing.● Conducted system level testing on the mechatronics sensor using standard lab instrumentation.● Used MATLAB to analyze data and verify technical specs with built in statistics toolbox.● Experimental hardware and firmware quality assessment through custom designed validation protocols to test the mechanical design and to ensure system performance specifications during the project plan phase.● Process data from failure analysis and perform root cause analysis on manufacturing errors.● Increased signal to noise ratio by 47% through signal processing and system identification in MATLAB. ● Improved sensor sensitivity by 70% using DOE (design of experiments) on the transducer architecture.● Improved prototype reliability 4-fold though troubleshooting assembly procedures while keeping to DFM guidelines.● Created sensor calibration algorithms to extract and interpret data from experiments in MATLAB.● System performance analysis and failure investigation to troubleshoot issues with analog and digital circuits.● Followed FDA regulations during the health risk analysis to ensure material safety● Gained 2D and 3D solid modeling experience working in AutoCad and Solidwoks CAD software.

• Research Assistant

  • Jan 2015 - Dec 2020