University of Maryland

Thermal Analyst at NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

I am currently the lead thermal analyst for the DraMS instrument for the Dragonfly mission.

I am a PI for an IRAD investigating co-simulating CFD software with Thermal Desktop.

I have been part of a few IRAD efforts supporting various innovative ideas for expanding thermal analysis capabilities.

I was the lead thermal analyst for the optical telescope array for the Roman Space Telescope.

I was the lead thermal analyst for the L'Ralph instrument on the LUCY mission launched in Oct 2021.

NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Thermal Analyst

Lentech Inc. acquired Edge Space Systems Inc. (Became Edge Space division in Lentech Inc.)
Currently working as the lead thermal analyst on the L'Ralph instrument flying on the Lucy mission.
Responsible for providing component and system level thermal analyses. 
Heavily involved through out the full life cycle of a spacecraft instrument, starting from design to testing to model correlation.

Lentech, Inc.

Analyze and design thermal systems for spacecrafts.
Currently working on a mission called LUCY where we will be sending out a spacecraft and its payloads to Jupiter's Trojans.

EDGE SPACE SYSTEMS, INC.

Thermal Engineer

Smart and Small Thermal Systems Laboratory Graduate research assistant under Dr. Michael Ohadi.
Worked with developing advanced heat exchangers for high-power electronics. 
Teaching assistant for ENME332, an undergraduate level course that teaches heat transfer processes.

Graduate Research/Teaching Assistant

Developed front ends in MATLAB for various interior ballistic (IB) computational fluid dynamics (CFD) codes.
Exposed to high-performance computers and UNIX systems.
Exposed to FORTRAN and some back end coding for IB.
Gave technical presentations.

Army Research Laboratory

Intern

Smat and Small Thermal Systems Laboratory undergraduate research assistant
Used computational fluid dynamics (CFD) programs to simulate and model fluid behavior
Worked with developing an embedded force-fed microgrooved heat exchanger system for high powered electronics

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Part of the instructional team for ENME350, an introductory Electronics and Instrumentation class
Set up circuit labs and guided students through the course

Teaching Fellow

Intern at the Smithsonian fire suppression system unit
Utilized Microsoft products and engineering programs such as AutoCAD to map out building components

Daniel Bae