Experience

Precision Zone, Inc.
• United States
• Industrial Automation
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Automation Applications Engineer

  • Jan 2023 - Present

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee
• Mechanical Engineering Student

  • Aug 2018 - Dec 2022

Yummy Future Inc.
• United States
• Research
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Mechanical Engineering Intern

  • Sep 2022 - Nov 2022
• Robotics Engineering Intern

  • Jun 2022 - Sep 2022


Argonne National Laboratory

• United States
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Aide

  • Sep 2021 - May 2022

• SULI Intern - Mechanical Engineering

  • Jun 2021 - Sep 2021

  At Argonne, I worked with the Beamline Instrumentation Group as part of the X-ray Science Division. I developed a graphical application for generation of topologically optimized mechanical flexures using MATLAB. This application is intended for the exploration of new design spaces for mechanical structures. Often, the optimized output gives topologies that are not easily intuited, making it a useful tool in this sense. The codebase of the app implements a finite element analysis of a meshed domain that supplies the optimizer with information about the local mechanical reactions of the system to applied boundary conditions. Due to the flexibility of FEA, the app is not limited to mechanical analysis. Other governing differential equations can be approximated as well, and a future direction is to implement a thermal conductivity objective function to be optimized. Mathematical methods such as the adjoint state method for finding gradients and the method of moving asymptotes for approximating convex functions are implemented in the optimization to improve efficiency, enabling high mesh densities and therefore high-fidelity models of the design in question. Continuing work includes utilizing the app in the development of an optimized conceptual design for a nano positioning flexure stage using Creo parametric. This particular use of the app is highly relevant for the beamline group as they work on the upgrade of the Advanced Photon Source. My performance in the summer as SULI Intern led to an extension of my appointment as a Research Aide. Show less



Saif Lab of Cell Mechanics and Nanoscale Materials

• Research Assistant

  • Nov 2018 - May 2022

  In Prof Saif's Lab, I cultured and conducted time-lapse experiments on fibroblast cells to link cell force to the onset of cancer metastasis. I analyzed experimental image data using MATLAB and ImajeJ to determine the displacement of the extracellular matrix and, consequently, the cellular force on the matrix. This data is key in determining relationships between fibroblast force generation, motion, matrix stiffness, and chemical signaling that shed light on potential mechanical precursors to cancer metastasis. In order to generate cell force data from the collected images, I helped develop code in MATLAB that utilizes the constitutive relationship between stress and strain outlined in the method of traction force microscopy. Additionally, I wrote scripts in our image analysis software, ImageJ, that automate the process of extracting pixel displacement data from the images so that it can be translated into matrix displacement data. I was co-author of a scientific paper, "Dose-independent threshold illumination for non-invasive time-lapse fluorescence imaging of live cells" published in Extreme Mechanics Letters 46 in 2021. More recently, I worked in Ansys Workbench to run static structural finite element analyses on CAD models of cell nuclei to compare total nuclear deformation in 2D and 3D environments and explore potential links between nuclear deformation and the uptake of YAP protein. Show less