Research

Research Interests

Computational Materials Science, Solar Energy Conversion and Storage, Solar Thermochemical Water Splitting

Summary

Defended PhD on Electronic Entropy Contributions to Oxygen Vacancy Formation in Nonstoichiometric Oxides for Solar Thermochemical Energy Storage.

Dissertation Title: Electronic Entropy effects on Oxygen Vacancy Formation in Solar Thermochemical Energy Storage Materials

Current Research Projects

Cluster expansion and charge neutral Grand Canonical Monte Carlo simulation of oxygen vacancy formation in cerium dioxide.

Evaluation of thermodynamic and entropic properties of complex metal oxides via investigation of electronic structure. (Doctoral).

Previous Research Projects

Quantified factors influencing Auto Loan Delinquency via tree-based Feature Importance (Decision Tree, AdaBoost, Random Forest and Permutation) and time-series analysis of GM Financial Consumer Automobile Receivables Trust Data.

Leveraged PCA to predict monthly change in future value of a portfolio composed of Swiss Government Bonds via multivariate time series analysis of historical monthly yield data.

Utilized bootstrapping, pseudoinverse method and Lorimier’s Theorem to estimate term structure (ZCB Prices, Simple Forward Rates and Yield Curve) over 30 year period with limited market quote data from multiple asset classes.

Carbon Dioxide Shuttling Thermochemical Storage Using Strontium Carbonate (Department of Energy Sunshot Initiative).

Characterization and analysis of fuel cell current load change transient response in a solid oxide fuel cell/gas turbine hybrid system (National Energy Technology Laboratory).

Optimization of Solar Thermal Energy Storage System.