Research

Formal research engagements and public scholarly output across engineering and the humanities.

2024–25

USC Water Quality Research Group · Undergraduate Engineering Research Student

Researched, structured, wrote, and produced a faculty-reviewed presentation on the origins, effects, detection, and removal technologies of PFAS.

Synthesized twenty references into a 45-page public resource under Prof. Massoud Pirbazari.
Compared activated carbon, anion exchange, and high-pressure membrane treatments across effectiveness, cost, scalability, energy use, and waste generation.
Surveyed emerging UV-based, enzymatic, biological, and hybrid treatment strategies.

2024–26

USC Department of Classics · Student Researcher

Translated chapters of Martino Martini’s Qiuyou pian from Classical Chinese into English and refined three chapters with faculty reviewers.

Completed weekly chapter translations and worked with Profs. Lucas Herchenroeder and Stefano Rebeggiani on review and revision.
Cross-referenced classical Chinese dictionaries and bibliographic records to resolve ambiguous names and source-text erosion.

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