// professional & research experience

Experience

  • Google X Jan 2026 – Jun 2026
    PhD Resident — AI for Chemistry · with Dr. John Paul Issa, Thomas Hossler, Prof. Gabe Gomes

    Architected and deployed an end-to-end MLOps pipeline on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to run large-scale ML inference over 1M+ partner data points.

  • Los Alamos National Laboratory Jun 2025 – Aug 2025
    Graduate Research Intern · with Dr. Ying Wai Li, Dr. Christopher Lane

    Integrated reward shaping and acceleration methods into a Monte Carlo Tree Search algorithm for the inverse design and discovery of heavy-fermion (superconducting) compounds.

  • University of Michigan May 2023 – Current
    Graduate Research Assistant · with Prof. Rebecca Lindsey

    Developed uncertainty quantification methods for simulations using machine-learned interatomic potentials (ML-IAP), in collaboration with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

  • University of Wisconsin–Madison Jul 2021 – May 2023
    Undergraduate Research Assistant · with Prof. Victor Zavala

    Applied Riemannian geometry to multivariate time-series batch processes with Dow Chemical; identified key process variables in collaboration with Argonne National Laboratory.

  • Dow Chemical Company May 2021 – Aug 2022
    Alternating Term Co-op

    Scaled batch production by 25.8% (~$800k/yr profit), cut waste 40% with a Python cleanout model, led capital investment projects, and saved ~$10k per trailer by identifying unsustainable SiH-containing products.

  • Michigan State University Aug 2021 – May 2023
    Undergraduate Research Assistant · with Prof. John Dorgan

    Used classification algorithms to sort plastics from near-infrared spectroscopy (NIR) data.

  • Michigan State University Jan 2020 – May 2020
    Undergraduate Research Assistant · with Prof. Milton Smith

    Studied iridium-catalyzed C–H borylation chemistry and coupling reactions, with a focus on green-chemistry optimization.

01Education

  • PhD, Chemical Engineering & Scientific Computing Expected May 2028
    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor · NSF Graduate Research Fellow
  • M.S.E., Chemical Engineering May 2024
    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • B.S., Chemical Engineering with Honors May 2023
    Michigan State University · GPA 3.90/4.00

02Skills

Languages

Python C++ MATLAB Bash

Computing

Jupyter High Performance Computing (Great Lakes, Stampede3, LLNL, LANL) Google Cloud Platform

Methods

Machine-learned interatomic potentials Monte Carlo Tree Search Bayesian optimization Uncertainty quantification