KJC (she/her)

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Kimberly is from a suburb just south of Atlanta, Georgia. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology with Highest Honors, majoring in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering and minoring in Scientific and Engineering Computing (under the College of Computing).

At Georgia Tech, Kimberly worked as an undergraduate teaching assistant, a peer tutor, and an undergraduate researcher. As an undergraduate researcher, she worked in Professor Martin Maldovan’s group with Dr. Juan Manuel Restrepo-Florez, where she worked on modeling a pipe-in-pipe reactor using COMSOL for the production of syn gas.

Kimberly is now attending the University of California, Berkeley to pursue a Doctor of Philosophy in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering. She works with Professor Ali Mesbah where her research focuses on predictive control, optimization, and machine learning for cold atmospheric plasma jets in biomedical applications. Details found under Projects

In January 2023, Kimberly also started as a Pathways Intern at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Ames Research Center. At Ames, she works with Dr. Jeremy Coupe on machine learning methods with graph representations for air traffic management. Details found under Projects