My name is Kyan, and I am an undergraduate Mechanical Engineering student at the McCormick School of Engineering. I am from San Francisco and first began researching air quality while in high school.
As a high schooler, I co-founded the Particulates Matter organization with the goal of providing reactive technologies to protect at-risk youth in San Francisco from extreme air pollution. I have also worked for AethLabs, a black carbon monitor manufacturer, designing an automatic and self-calibrating soot generation system over the past two years to test their devices. As an undergraduate, I am researching the air pollution effects of heat pump implementation scenarios across CONUS.
I currently work in the Climate Change Research Group (CCRG), advised by Professor Dan Horton and Postdoctoral Scholar Sara Camilleri. My research goals are to study the effects of different technology implementation scenarios on air pollution within an environmental justice framework. I will achieve this by combining housing and technology uptake simulation tools, residential stock characteristics, air quality models, community indicators, and health factors.
