Biomaterials, energetic materials, Biochemistry, tribology, metallurgy, education

Materials Science and Engineering Umbrella Society, ASM Outreach project; Georgia High School Outreach for Science and Technology, Scientists and Engineers for America, ASM, MRS, AIST, ACerS

Computers, art design, materials science.

"It would be a shame if the wrapping was more exciting than its contents." -Albert Einstein

Receive MS in Materials Science at Georgia Tech then obtain PhD in Materials Science and then go into research and eventually become a professor.

-Structural Energetic Materials -High resolution Si surface modification with gold nanoparticles -Synthesis and characterization of quantum dots and magnetic nanoparticles.

-2008 APS best undergraduate poster in computational physics award -2008 ASM Leadershape scholarship -2008 ASM Outstanding Undergraduate Scholar Award -Fall 2007 PURA Research Award -Fall 2008 PURA Research Award

Tech is unparalleled in its ability to provide a multidisciplinary research experience. It amazes me how easily and willingly various research groups and departments interact and work together to produce outstanding results. More personally, being able to interact with researchers from a variety of disciplines has truly broadened my perspective and appreciation of science and engineering in general.

I am currently working on the development of a structural energetic material through use of both computer modeling simulating high velocity impacts as well as actual high velocity impact experiments of linear cellular alloy materials. Also working in a separate lab to develop a solution deposition method to produce a gold monolayer on a substrate surface that could later be high controlled and patterned using AFM. If successful this process could be invaluable in the production of future electronic devices. I have worked in the past on the synthesis of multifunctional quantum dot/magnetic nanoparticle nanocrystals for potential treatment of cystic fibrosis.