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Work Experience

Apple, Inc.

(San Francisco Bay Area)

https://www.apple.com/

​          Responsibilities: systems design and manufacturing

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  • Systems Design (Robotics) Engineer      (Jun, 2020 — Present)

Omron Robotics and Safety Technologies, Inc.

(San Francisco Bay Area)

https://www.robotics.omron.com/

  • Project: “i4-SCARA High End Robot” 

          (2019 - Present)

          Responsibilities: robot mechanical system design and manufacturing, IP65 and clean room

                                       robot design and certification, analysis and simulation of robot components.

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  • Project: “i4-SCARA Low End Robot” 

          (2019 - Present)

          Responsibilities: robot calibration design, development of robot configurations, analysis of robot

                                     structures to reduce the cost for mass production.

  • Senior Mechanical Engineer     (Jan, 2019 — Jun, 2020)

Northwestern University

(Chicago Area)

​Advanced Manufacturing Processes Lab.

Dept. of Mechanical Engineering

http://ampl.mech.northwestern.edu/

  • Project: “Rapid Freeform Sheet Metal Forming”, US Department of Energy (DOE)

          (2013 - 2019)

          Responsibilities: system design/analysis/fabrication of a novel 3-DOF translational parallel

                                        robots system with high stiffness/accuracy for double sided incremental

                                        forming process.

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  • Project: “PFI: AIR-TT: Hybrid Tri-pyramid Robot: A Novel Type of Double-Sided Incremental                            Forming Machine”, US National Science Foundation (NSF)

          (2014 - 2018)

          Responsibilities: design of hybrid Tri-pyramid Robots for multi-scale (meso/micro) double sided

                                        incremental forming, analysis/fabrication of the novel desktop forming

                                        machine.

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  • Project: “Electrically-Assisted Tubing Processes for Strengthened Structural Materials of Nuclear                  Reactor Applications”, DOE

          (2015 - 2019)

          Responsibilities: design of new incremental rolling machine, analysis of forming structure,

                                        development of the system design method/modeling.

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  • Project: “Further Development Of Aperture: A Precise Extremely Large Reflective Telescope                          Using Re-Configurable Elements”, NASA

          (2016 - 2019)

          Responsibilities: system development and measurement of magnetostrictively deformed mirror

                                        for X-ray telescopes, modeling and data analysis of optomechanical platform.

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  • Project: “3D Shaping with Tertiary Tool Motion”, NSF

          (2011 - 2013)

          Responsibilities: design of compliant parallel stage for vibration-assisted machining system,

                                        displacement amplification design in non-resonant ultrasonic mode, compliant

                                        and error modeling of the parallel positioning stages.

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  • Project: “Deployable Design of Kinematotropic Manipulators”, NSF

          (2012 - 2013)

          Responsibilities: development of parallel hybrid-loop manipulators with kinematotropic

                                        property and deployability, presented a new design/modeling methodology.

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  • Project: “Parallel Wedge Precision Stage”, NSF

          (2011 - 2012)

          Responsibilities: optimize analysis of a parallel wedge stage with ultra-high precision motions,

                                        error predicate modeling and process simulation.

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  • Senior Research Fellow   

          (Jan, 2015 — Jan, 2019)

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  • Postdoctoral Fellow

          (Jan, 2011 — Jan, 2015)

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