​Rice University

Working towards Ph.D. in Materials Engineering

Brown University 

Sc.M. in Materials Science (2018)

Sc.B. with Honors in Materials Engineering (2017) 

Thesis: Effects Controlling the Nucleation and Growth of Surface Features in Sn Thinfilms 

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The Chinese University of Hong Kong

International Asia Studies Program, Fall 2015 

Education

Research

Other Skills

Notable Coursework

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• ​Image processing 
• Data analysis (SAS, STATA, SQL)
  
• Monte Carlo simulation
  
• Web design (HTML, Javascript, CSS)​

Tin Whisker Kinetics in Thin Films 

PI: Prof. Eric Chason, School of Engineering

Brown University​

Publication: E. Chason, J. Vasquez, F. Pei, N. Jain and A. Hitt (2018). “Quantifying the Effect of Stress on Sn Whisker Nucleation Kinetics,” Journal of Electronic Materials 47(1): 103-109.​

Corporate Social Media and Employment Networks 
PI: Prof. Lynn Wu, Wharton School of Business
University of Pennsylvania

Materials Science and Engineering

• Atomistic Modeling
  
• ​Finite Element Analysis
  
• Electronic Materials
  
• ​Nanoscale Materials
  
• Kinetic Processes in Solids
  
• ​Crystallography
  
• ​Thermodynamics of Materials
  
• Physical Chemistry of Solids
  
• Metallic Materials
  
• Mechanical Properties
• Solid Mechanics

Computer Science and Applied Math 

• ​Machine Learning
  
• Scientific Computing (Python, MATLAB) ​
  
• Stochastic Processes
  
• ​Differential Equations 
  
• ​​Linear Algebra​