Kai-Wen Cheng

Past Experience

• #Power Electronics
• #Data Sciences
• #Circuit Design
• #GIS

• • UC San Diego Jacob’s School of Engineering

  • Data Analytics Research Intern

  • ● Research under professor Yuanyuan Shi to conduct data analytics of carbon emission data from the California grid.

    ● Organize and visualized more than 100,000 entries of grid marginal emission data into heatmaps using pandas and numpy.

    ● Help develop and simulate a carbon minimizing strategy for electric vehicles using carbon emission data and charging data.

• • UC San Diego Jacob’s School of Engineering

  • Power Electronics Research Intern

  • ● Research under professor Hanh-Phuc Le to conduct simulation and hardware implementation for DC-DC power converter.

    ● Simulate a close-loop synchronous buck converter that steps down from 12V to 3V under ideal and non-ideal implementations.

    ● Implement and measure the designed buck converter on PCB to validate simulation results with empirical findings.

• • San Diego Supercomputer Center

  • Wildfire Behaviour Modeling Intern

  • ● Collaborated with fire departments in CA to provide alerts and models using the Firemap GIS tool.

    ● Analyzed and compiled wildfire alerts and models to predict better understand fire behavior.

    ● Assisted in the investigation of wildfire point of ignition through local radio channel and twitter.

Academics

• #Power Electronics
• #Data Sciences
• #GIS
• #Software Engingeering
• #Circuit Design
• #Economics

Resume / Transcript

• #Git
• #C Programming
• #ArcGIS
• #Matlab
• #Spanish
• #Mandarin
• #HTML/CSS/JS
• #Java
• #Python

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Writings and Projects

• #Git
• #ArcGIS
• #Arduino
• #Macroeconomics

• Public Transportation in New York City, A Demographic.
• The U.S. Dollar as a Dominant Currency
• Volume Warning System for Social Gatherings
• Carbon-Aware EV Charging, Presentation at Summer Research Conference at UCSD