Engineering Projects & Technical Systems.
Selected systems, simulations, and engineering projects from my industry work at Tesla and Rivian and my academic studies at UC Berkeley and UC San Diego.
Featured Industry & Academic Projects
5 Projects (2020 – 2024)FAST Screening Library & RAPID Multi-Factory Telemetry
Battery formation analytics, real-time Gigafactory dashboards, and 4680 cell API recipe systems at Tesla.
Production data engineering and analytical tools built at Tesla to evaluate new development recipes during battery formation, stream real-time factory telemetry to AWS, and detect End-of-Line (EoL) cell defects.
- Enabled deterministic pass/fail trial evaluations for battery formation development recipes through the FAST library.
- Increased R&D trial throughput for 4680 battery cells with automated API recipe synchronization.
- Defined vendor scoring parameters for business analytics teams using End-of-Line defect detection metrics.
EV Battery Formation Recipes & SEI Precharge Anomaly Diagnostics
Six deployed formation recipes for R1S, R2, and R3 battery cells with improved Supercharger compatibility at Rivian.
Electrochemical cell formation recipes and precharge diagnostic protocols developed at Rivian for the R1S, R2, and R3 battery programs.
- Deployed 6 formation recipes (4 development, 2 production) that served as the standard baseline from December 2021 to December 2022.
- Improved fast-charging compatibility with Tesla’s Supercharger network across R1S, R2, and R3 cell builds.
LPCVD Silicon Wafer Reactor Uniformity Modeling
Coupled fluid dynamics, heat/mass transfer simulation, and 2^k factorial Design of Experiments in COMSOL & MATLAB.
Computational modeling and experimental design of a Low Pressure Chemical Vapor Deposition (LPCVD) boat reactor achieving nearly 100% silicon wafer deposition uniformity.
- Designed a boat reactor configuration achieving nearly 100% silicon wafer uniformity in COMSOL simulations.
- Quantified key process sensitivity parameters through 2^k Design of Experiments and 2D/3D MATLAB visualization.
Gitlet — Distributed Version Control System in Java
Content-addressable persistence, O(n) branching data structures, and historical commit restoration.
A Java implementation of core Git version-control functionality using content-addressable file persistence, object serialization, and O(n) complexity branching.
- Implemented core Git commands, O(n) branching, and persistent historical state restoration in Java.
- View-only source code available upon email request.
Acoustic Spatiotemporal Output & Digital Image Processing
Arduino G-Code motorized speaker scanning, PWM analog conversion, and MATLAB digital video characterization.
Two MATLAB hardware-in-the-loop instrumentation studies: characterizing the spatiotemporal acoustic output of a speaker using Arduino G-Code motion control (Feb 2020) and quantitative digital video/image signal analysis (Apr 2020).
- Characterized spatiotemporal speaker output with improved signal-to-noise ratio through time-domain averaging.
- Evaluated digital imaging resolution and sampling constraints and demonstrated PWM + low-pass digital-to-analog conversion in MATLAB.
Additional Coursework & Simulation Projects
| Project Title | Discipline / Language | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Molecular Property Prediction (Active & Transfer Learning) | Python · TensorFlow/Keras | ATOM Science (Sep 2022 – May 2023) |
| Catalytic Bed Reactor | Chemical Engineering | UC San Diego Coursework |
| Hydrogen on Demand | Chemical Engineering | UC San Diego Coursework |
| Ideal Gas Simulation | MATLAB | UC San Diego Coursework |
| Ant vs. Doodlebug | C++ | UC San Diego Coursework |
| Employee Paycheck & Deques | C++ / Java | UC San Diego Coursework |
| 2048 Game Implementation | Java | UC San Diego Coursework |