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Experience

• Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) | Researcher | Scientific Machine Learning Department | Partition of Unity Physics-Informed Neural Networks (POU-PINNs) | SNL Mentors: Drs. Mauro Perego and Jonas Actor | UPENN Mentor: Prof. Nat Trask | Aug 2023 - Oct 2023

• Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) | Visiting Researcher | Computational Mathematics Department | Partition of Unity Physics-informed Neural Networks (POU-PINNs) | Mentors: Drs. Nat Trask, Mauro Perego, and Jonas Actor | May 2023 - Aug 2023

• Purdue University (Purdue) | Researcher | School of Aeronautics and Astronautics | Computational Hypersonic Boundary-layer Transition on Blunt Ogives |  Mentor: Prof. Steven P. Schneider | Feb 2022 -  Sept 2023

• Air Force Research Laboratory, Holloman High-Speed Test Track (AFRL-HHSTT) | Project Management | Program Manager Mentor: Jinhee F. Byun | March 2022 - Sept 2023

• The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) | Research Assistant | Advanced Modeling and Simulation Research Laboratory | Computational Fluid Dynamics, Turbulence, Artificial Intelligence, and High-Performance Computing | UTEP Mentors: Vinod Kumar, V M Krushnarao Kotteda, Jorge A. Munoz and Ashesh Chattopadhyay | Imperial College Mentor: Christopher Harris | May 2015 - Sept 2023

• NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA JPL) | Consultant | Oscillating Heat Pipes, Computational Analysis, and Theory | POCs: Cesar Diaz-Caraveo (UTEP), Drs. Takuro Daimaru (NASA JPL) and Scott N. Roberts (NASA JPL) | October 2022 - May 2023

• U.S. Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration Headquarters (DOE NNSA HQs) | DOE NNSA NGFP Fellow | Facilities Studies and Management | Mentor: Andrew P. Trotta, P.E. | June 2021 - June 2022

• Air Force Research Laboratory - Maui Optical and Supercomputing Site (AFRL - AMOS)  | AFRL Scholar | Solving approximations of Maxwell's Equations coupled with Turbulence Intermittency Studies | Mentor: Dr. Venkata S.R. Gudimetla | January 2021 - April 2021

• Brown University (Brown) | Researcher | Division of Applied Mathematics | Learning  Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) | Mentor: Prof. George Em Karniadakis | Sept 2020 - Feb 2021

• California State University, Northridge (CSUN) | Researcher | Department of Mechanical Engineering | Aerodynamics at Low Reynolds numbers using XFOIL and in-house pre and post-processing code for XFOIL developed by me | Mentor: Dr. Hamid Johari | Sept 2020 - Jan 2021

• Sandia National Laboratories (SNL)  | Undergraduate Research & Development Intern | Aerosciences Department | Validation and Verification, Ablation, Mesh Generation, Aerodynamics, Compressible Flows, Re-Entry, and Aero-Thermal Analysis | Mentor: Dr. Paul M. Delgado | May 2020 -  Aug 2020

• The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) | Technical Aide |Oceanic, Atmospheric, and Remote Sensing Sciences Group | Propulsion, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Simulation Post-Processing, Overlapping Meshing, Fast Fourier Transform, and Mode Decomposition | Mentor: Dr. Jay H. Phelps | May 2019 - Aug 2019

• Sandia National Laboratories (SNL)  | Undergraduate Research & Development Intern | Fire Science and Technology Department | Computational Fluid Dynamics Coding, Plume Combustion, Urban Contaminant Dispersion, Mesh Convergence, Post-Processing, and Validation | Mentors: Drs. Alexander L. Brown and John C. Hewson | May 2018 - Aug 2018

• The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA)  | High School SIEMENS Researcher | Department of Civil Engineering | Time Domain Retroreflector (TDR) Method for Soil Permittivity and Soil Grain Distribution using Sieve Analysis | Mentors: Drs. Xinbao Yu, Nan Zhang, and Asheesh Pradhan | Jun 2013 - Aug 2013

Honors & Awards

• AJKFED 2023 - Computational Fluid Dynamics Session Chair (Selected)

• National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF GRFP Fellow)

• The U.S. Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NNSA NGFP Fellow)

• The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) Department of Mechanical Engineering Outstanding Performance Award

• Houston Endowment Scholarship

• Lockheed Martin Aeronautics UTEP Alumni Employees Endowed Scholarship in Engineering

• AFOSR/UTEP Research Assistantship

• UTEP MERITUS Research Program Scholarship / Assistantship

• Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Scholarship

• Who's Who Among Students in American Universities & Colleges

• The Boeing Company Scholarship