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Founder of EGG-tech, affiliate of IntAct Labs, PhD in Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT (thesis research in Quantum Information), BS w/ double major in Materials Science and Electrical Engineering Computer Science at UC Berkeley
Headline:
Entrepreneur
Industries:
Biotech, Cleantech, Mobile
Skills:
Business, Chinese, Electrical Engineering, Engineering, English, Entrepreneurship, Languages
Next step:
Going to Tanzania in June to get EGG-tech off the ground!
Finding business partners, Finding engineers, Finding experts, Finding team mates, Getting press, Participating in a competition, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Raising money, Receiving feedback, Recruiting for my startup
Schools:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California System - Berkeley
EGG-energy links low-income consumers in Sub-Saharan Africa to power producers by setting up a network of “charge & swap” service stations where we swap empty batteries for fully charged ones.
Startup type: Competition Entry
Status: Active
Stage: Prototyping
WORK EXPERIENCE
Employer:
IntAct Labs
Position:
Affiliate
Time period:
November 2008 - Present
Description:
• Electrical engineering and design work on microbial fuel cells for wastewater treatment.
Employer:
EGG-tech
Position:
Founder
Time period:
June 2008 - Present
Description:
EGG-tech is a venture to connect low-income Tanzanians to electricity via a battery swapping service.
Employer:
MIT
Position:
Teaching Assistant
Time period:
January 2007 - May 2007
Description:
• Teaching assistant for undergraduate classes in electronics (spring 2007) and medical imaging (fall 2003): Conducted laboratory and recitation sections and implemented teaching laboratory equipment.
Employer:
Keio University, Yokohama, Japan
Position:
National Science Foundation East Asia and Pacific Summer Institute
Time period:
May 2006 - July 2006
Description:
• Designed and implemented an electron spin resonance system to study the behavior of electron spins in silicon at low magnetic field.
Employer:
MIT
Position:
PhD Candidate / Research Assistant
Time period:
August 2003 - February 2009
Description:
• Numerically simulated and physically implemented novel magnetic resonance techniques to control coupled electron and nuclear spins in solid state systems for use as quantum bits
• Designed, built, and programmed X-band continuous wave and pulsed electron spin resonance probes and spectrometers
Employer:
UC Berkeley
Position:
Undergraduate Research in SQUID devices for Quantum Computing
Time period:
September 2001 - November 2002
Description:
• Built filters and electronics for superconducting flux-based quantum bit laboratory
Employer:
IBM Almaden Research Center / Hitachi, San Jose, CA
• Explored spin-dependent tunneling for future read heads and optimized current giant magnetoresistive read heads for hard disk drives
• Modeled read heads using Mathematica to determine methods for extracting sensor parameters from rotational field magnetometer measurements
EDUCATION
University:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Time period:
2003 - 2008
Degree:
Nuclear Science and Engineering, PhD
University:
University of California System - Berkeley
Time period:
1998 - 2002
Degree:
Double Major in Materials Science and Electrical Engineering Computer Science, BSc
EGG-energy links low-income consumers in Sub-Saharan Africa to power producers by setting up a network of “charge & swap” service stations where we swap empty batteries for fully charged ones.
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