She started her career as a physicist, engaging in meaningful
academic research as early as her freshman year at MIT, pursuing original
research for the next 11 years spanning condensed matter experimental physics,
chaos theory, semi-classical mechanics, dark matter theory, field theory and
star formation theory and analysis at University of Michigan, UCSD and Harvard
University. The research was published
in peer reviewed journals or in university publications and required original
analytical calculations, computational simulations and data analysis. She received her B.S. in physics from MIT and
PhD in physics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. This formed the foundation that would enable
her later to deep dive into any technology, understand its essence, then adapt
it or innovate on it to engineer a successful product to serve specific needs.
Wanting to make a mark in the real world, she then pursued a career in the automotive industry (GM, Aptiv, Magna) starting as an individual contributor in 2001, until she left automotive in 2021, working her way to leading cross-functional engineering teams to successful R&D (earning several patents for the team and employer), product/service specification, development, testing and launches in telematics, connectivity, infotainment, active and passive safety, EV motors, data analytics, camera lenses, coatings, powertrain waste heat thermal management, etc. In her early career, she had the privilege of working under the mentorship of a public policy leader, thus gaining experience in coordinating industry data standards for passive safety and crash notification at the dawn of telematics.
In 2021, she left automotive to pursue a life calling to do her part in moving the needle on the adoption of clean energy and sustainability. She conceived of a solar PV solution architecture that yields a substantially higher energy conversion efficiency and proceeded to write and submit a patent request with the help of the USPTO’s excellent pro se department. She hopes to develop this into a product in due course. She underwent training in PV engineering design, sustainability reporting, GHG inventory management, sustainability reporting and several other key clean energy and sustainability subjects. She uses this newfound continuous learning to better understand corporate sustainability needs and then leverages her foundational depth in technology, science, engineering and innovation to identify and define solutions that meet these needs.
Through her various experiences, she has acquired a deep appreciation of collaborative teamwork, how to best lead a team by aligning individual objectives to a common definition of team success, and by working alongside team members to inspire, teach, learn from and engender success.
