I am a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California San Diego (UCSD).  My primary areas of research are Computational Mechanics and Computational Design Optimization of advanced materials and components for coupled and uncoupled physical systems.

I received my Ph.D. from the University of Colorado Boulder and my Ph.D. research was conducted under the supervision of Prof. Kurt Maute. My Ph.D. thesis was focused on the development of numerical modeling and parameter identification methodologies for Lithium-Ion Batteries (LIBs). The research accounted for design optimization and various multiphysics phenomena and multiscale modeling that include the transport, electrochemical, degradation, cohesion and delamination, and mechanical models by the multiscale finite element method where complex microstructures were modeled by the eXtended Finite Element Method (XFEM). 

After my Ph.D., my Postdoctoral Research at the Johns Hopkins University was conducted under the supervision of Prof. James K. Guest. The main focus of my postdoctoral research was developing integrated topology optimization and additive manufacturing methodologies for the next-generation of thermo-fluidic components and heat exchangers.

Now at UCSD and under the supervision of Prof. Nicholas S. Boechler and Prof. Hyunsun Alicia Kim, I am pursuing two research projects. This includes developing a novel topology optimization framework to explore the design of microstructured materials with tailored nonlinear constitutive laws and the design of materials that contain mechano-chemical coupling.