Education
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Chemical Engineering – January 2021 to April 2026
McGill University, Montréal, Canada
- Thesis: Multiscale Characterization of Gas Hydrates: Interfacial and Structural Aspects
- Employing high performance molecular dynamics for interfacial systems in gas hydrate engineering applications, and density functional theory for solid crystalline gas hydrate systems.
- Doctoral Research Scholarship: Fonds de recherche du Québec – Nature et technologies
- McGill Engineering Doctoral Award
- Relevant Coursework: Heat and Mass Transfer (CHEE 611), Foundations of Fluid Mechanics (CHEE 631, incl. CFD with COMSOL), Process Dynamics and Control (CHEE 672, incl. Simulink)
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Chemical Engineering – May 2018 to April 2020
McGill University, Montréal, Canada
- Thesis: Thermal Properties of Gas Hydrates Using Density Functional Theory
- Predicted thermal properties of sI gas hydrates from first principles using Density Functional Theory.
- McGill Engineering Undergraduate Student Master’s Award
- Relevant Coursework: Graduate Thermodynamics (CHEE 621), Graduate Computational Methods (CHEE 662), Quantum Materials (MIME 658, Mining and Materials Engineering)
Ph.D. Program Milestones
- CHEE 795: Ph.D. Thesis Proposal (completed)
- CHEE 796: Ph.D. Proposal Defence (completed)
- CHEE 797: Ph.D. Seminar (completed)
- CHEE 687: Research Skills & Ethics (completed during M.Eng.)
- CHEE 681: Laboratory Safety 1 (completed during M.Eng.)
- CHEE 682: Laboratory Safety 2 (completed during M.Eng.)
- Ph.D. Final Seminar (completed)
- Ph.D. Thesis Defence (completed)
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Chemical Engineering – September 2014 to April 2018
McGill University, Montréal, Canada
- Relevant Coursework: Computational Methods, Biofluids and Cardiovascular Mechanics (CHEE/MECH 563 – Navier-Stokes, vascular solid mechanics, fluid-structure interaction), Plant Design Capstone (heat and mass balance focused)
Professional Development
- Mathematics of Multiscale and Multiphysics Phenomena in Materials Science – June 16 to June 21, 2024
- Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery, Banff, Canada
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- Computational Materials North Workshop – August 03 to August 04, 2023
- Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada
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- Moving ions with VASP (Vienna Ab initio Simulation Package) for the advanced user – November 13 to November 17, 2023
- HPC Python – June 2022
- Virtual via Compute Ontario Summer School
- DAT112: Neural Network Programming – April 2022
- Virtual via SciNet HPC Consortium
- Six-week course: neural network concepts, theory, and techniques using Python 3.9 and Keras framework
- HPC133: Introduction to GPU Programming – April 2022
- Virtual via SciNet HPC Consortium
- Overview of GPUs in supercomputing, GPU programming frameworks, accelerating scientific computing with GPUs (Python/C++)
- SCMP271: Advanced Linux Command Line – February 2022
- Virtual via SciNet HPC Consortium
- Advanced Linux commands for productivity on HPC systems
- Advanced materials for energy storage and conversion summer school – July 05 to July 09, 2021
- Virtual via Université de Bordeaux
- Topics: Thermal energy storage, PEM fuel cells and electrolysis, photocatalysis for solar fuels, photovoltaic systems, supercapacitors, battery technologies, hydrogen storage and metal hydrides, battery recycling, industrial energy systems
- Capstone group project with short presentation
- Prize: Quebec Centre for Advanced Materials Participation Grant
- Applied Data Science with Python Specialization – Fall 2020
- Python for Everybody Specialization – Fall 2020
