Current Research or Professional Activities

FOUNDER & CEO, Covalent Innovation, LLC, Houston, TX, 01/2021 – present date
• Innovation consultant focused on helping companies and projects achieve their technology development goals.
• Thermal modeling, heating, energy source and storage components requirements, and materials selection of individual homeless shelter to be used in Edmonton, Canada (temperature: -40 oC).
• Design and oversee characterization plan for concrete waterproofing admixture in scientific laboratories, including SEM, EDS, FTIR, XRD, and TGA/DSC.
• Research planning and writing of NSF project pitch and SBIR Phase I grant application for A.I. Analysis, Inc.
• Materials selection of polymer for thin-walled injection molding parts of Breakthrough Photography, LLC.
• Molecular dynamics simulations using LAMMPS software of an epoxy-liquid crystal polymer interface.
• Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation of the water-air interaction inside and around the geometry of a Cartesian diver commercial product of Strottman toy company.