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After taking a class in additive manufacturing (AM) and seeing some of the cool work done at JPL with it, I fell in love with the limitless possibilities that came with AM either through part design or resin development. At this point, I was considering heading into the workforce after undergrad or go into graduate school, but the possibility of working on advanced systems and new technologies was the path I wanted my career to head in. After some discussions with graduate st

Photo from JPL, gemeinfrei Before joining JPL, I had the opportunity to intern at HRL Laboratories as a computational materials researcher, a path closely aligned with my background in simulation and defect modeling. However, I ultimately chose NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) because I wanted to gain practical, hands on experience in materials characterization and processing in the engineering and industrial side of materials. The tipping point for me joining JPL was f

As an undergraduate researcher at the Asta group, I contributed to research on vacancy migration in NbMoTaW high entropy alloys, with findings published in the McNair Journal. I utilized molecular dynamic simulations, developing algorithms to track vacancy movement despite challenges such as high vibrational noise and lattice distortion. Moreover, I worked on advancing the PyDII framework under the mentorship of Dr. Enze Chen, refining computational methods for analyzing defe