Projects

Industry-4.0 Algae Test Lab

I designed and built the data-driven "Industry-4.0" microalgae bio-manufacturing facility at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), called the Industry-4.0 Algae Test Lab. It was awarded a $2.2 million AUD grant funded by the Australian government, and became operational within 1 year from the start of construction.

Promotional video on YouTube
Industry-4.0 Algae Test Lab website

Living Lights | Vivid Sydney

The UTS Living Lights exhibit from the Vivid Sydney festival in 2018 was a beautiful demonstration of the diversity of microalgae and their photosynthesis. My role on the project was to design and build the user interface, so that people could light-up the algae with different colors and see how the rainbow changes when it passes through photosynthesizing cultures of red, green, and brown algae.

Living Lights website

Dynamic Environment Photosynthesis Imager (DEPI)

Finding the good mutation in a collection of mutant plants is like finding a needle in a haystack, but with the DEPI system, me and my colleagues at Michigan State University were able to simultaneously screen the entire haystack of plant mutants to find the few that mutated into a more efficient or robust kind of photosynthesis. These instruments, whose firmware and software I designed and developed, have been used for many years now to make cutting edge discoveries in the world of plant science.

DEPI website