Biography
I’m a researcher, primarily interested in the enhancement of two-phase heat transfer, and a scientist, interested in learning more about whatever aspect of this wonderful world has currently caught my attention. Formerly, I was a graduate student in the school of mechanical engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where I was a member of the Fluid Mechanics Research Laboratory under the direction of Dr. Ari Glezer beginning in 2009, and subsequently transitioned to a post-doc position. Lately, I’ve been working as a machine learning engineer for a small startup company, focusing on computer vision and other statistical learning techniques!
My research work focuses on experimental investigation on the use of acoustic actuation as a method for enhancing the phase-change heat transfer processes of boiling and condensation. In both cases, significant enhancement is achievable using low-power acoustic actuators, and could be incorporated in energy generation or process engineering applications.
As an experimentalist, I’m also interested in all the supporting technologies and techniques that enable or inform what happens in the lab… from material choice, electronic systems for power and control, photography and lighting, all the way to software-based post-processing and data reduction. I find it fun to explore these fields in my free time, which is how I ended up working on computer vision and machine learning projects.
Interests
- Fluid Mechanics
- Heat Transfer
- Thermodynamics
- Computer Vision
- Machine Learning
Education
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Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering, 2017
Georgia Institute of Technology
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MS in Mechanical Engineering, 2013
Georgia Institute of Technology
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BS in Mechanical Engineering, 2009
Tufts University
