RESUME
Summary
Detail-oriented Mechanical engineer with expertise in design, fabrication, test, modeling, and troubleshooting of MEMS, Microfluidics, and thermal systems. Hands-on experience in Class 100 Cleanroom for fabrication of Microfluidics.
Strong analytical skills including CFD, FEM, numerical methods, programing, data analysis, image processing
Professional
experience
Postdoctoral Researcher
Aug 2019 - present
Multiscale Energy and Materials lab, Louisiana Tech University
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Designed, fabricated, tested a multicomponent test rig for evaluating the multi-phase cooling at saturation point
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Conducted validation tests to evaluate the heat transfer performance of different thermal management systems
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Fabricated/modified micro-nano structured copper surfaces for improving the cooling performance
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Performed high speed imaging and comprehensive image/video processing to obtain the number and diameter of the bubbles using MATLAB image processing platform
University Lecturer
Mar 2020 - Jun 2020
Louisiana Tech University
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Instructed the Elementary Fluid Mechanics at Zoom (group of 14 students)
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Strengthened soft skills such as communication, decision making, leadership, listening, and excellent relationship building
Graduate Research Assistant
Sep 2013 - Feb 2019
Microfluidics lab, Louisiana Tech University
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Designed, built, and characterized a counter-flow microfluidic thermal reactor for rapid and stable heating (up to 145 ºC/sec)
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Applied rapid-prototyping techniques and developed a set-up consisting of fans, heat sinks, temperature controllers, and other thermal components to test the devices
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Applied semiconductor process techniques such as mask design, photolithography, chemical wet etching, wafer dicing, wafer bonding to fabricate microfluidic thermal reactors
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Carried out the CFD modeling of the thermal systems, all validated with experimental results
Education
PhD in Engineering, Micro & Nanoscale Systems
(GPA 3.88/4.00)
Louisiana Tech University
Feb 2019
Dissertation title: Development of a Counter-flow Thermal Gradient Microfluidic Device
MS in Mechanical Engineering (GPA 3.44/4.00)
Sahand University of Technology, Iran
Jan 2012
Thesis title: Numerical analysis of flow and heat transfer of wavy microchannels in slip-flow regime
BS in Mechanical Engineering (GPA 3.00/4.00)
Shiraz University, Iran
Aug 2009
Voluntary
Research Volunteer
Energy Harvesting Lab, Louisiana Tech University
Jun 2019- Aug 2019
• Performed structural and electrical modeling of a flexible liquid metal strain sensor in COMSOL Multiphysics (outcome is published in IEEE sensors journal)
• Obtained the hyperelastic material model of a 3-D printed TPU substrate from the stress-strain uniaxial test
Volunteer Teaching Assistant
Sahand University of Technology
Jan 2011- Apr 2011
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Assisted the instructor of the Advanced Fluid Mechanics course solving sample problems and grading the homework
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Provided the instructor with sample exam problems