IvanFJ

About Me

PhD Candidate @ UC Berkeley.

I'm currently working towards solving our global plastic waste problem by researching & developing truly biodegradable plastics. I aspire to be an applied scientist who can write code to do unsupervised learning & high-throughput robotics, as well as make cool biomaterials in lab with my own two hands.

I've called Bangkok, Shanghai, Indonesia, Berkeley and San Francisco home.

I like building cool things with code and science & am always down for a new adventure.

I've spent way too much of my life following Chelsea Football Club.

I don't do much social media but I write stuff on Medium sometimes. I also record a weekly podcast with my friends Wing & Andrei. We talk about life, philosophy, science, technology, venture capital and whatever else tickles our fancy. Check us out on Spotify!

Resume

Some highlights from my CV.

Education

PhD in Applied Science & Technology

2019 - Present

University of California, Berkeley

Research and coursework focus in soft and biological materials science & engineering, bioinformatics, and applied machine learning.

B.A. in Computer Science

2015 - 2019

University of California, Berkeley

Coursework in data structures, computer architecture, efficient algorithms and intractable problems, machine learning, computer graphics, computational photography, and computer vision.

B.S. in Chemical Engineering

2015 - 2019

University of California, Berkeley

Coursework in thermodynamics, transport, separations, kinetics and reaction engineering, dynamics and control of chemical systems, engineering molecules, and chemical process design.

Professional Experience

Data Scientist & Software Engineer

2018

Visolis, Berkeley, CA

Built a synthesis map (database) of biological and chemical reaction pathways. Including both published and novel, computationally predicted reactions, as well as economic/cost traversal heuristics.

Teaching Experience

Polymeric Materials (MSE 151) GSI

Spring 2020

University of California, Berkeley

Taught polymer chemistry & physics to 60 undergraduate students
Designed course materials: presentation slides, homework, group project materials & exams