Experience

  1. Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies | Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering

    Harvard University, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

    Responsibilities include:

    • Taught ES-51 - Computer Aided Machine Design and ES 192 Material Selection by Design courses
    • Advised and mentored ES 100 Senior Capstone projects
    • Worked as part of the undergraduate committee to review and enhance the undergradaute engineering curriculum
  2. Assistant Professor of Engineering Technology

    University of Alabama in Huntsville

    Responsibilities include:

    • Taught undergradaute engineering courses such as mechanical desgin, manufacturing, dynamics, mechanics of materials
    • Developed an engineering technology lab to support courses
    • Developed VR/AR educational tools to support engineering courses
    • Adviced and mentored senior capstone design projects
  3. Research Assistant/Graduate Researcher

    Center for Manufacturing Research - Tennessee Tech University

    Responsibilities include:

    • Designed functionally graded composite materials for variety of applications in industry
    • Developed computational model for effective FGM simulations and conducted mechanical, thermal characterizations.
    • Designed and developed VR educational modules for NSF-funded projects.
  4. Mechanical Engineer

    PMD Projects LLC

    Responsibilities include:

    • Led mechanical design and analysis of HVAC systems, including component selection and system layout.
    • Conducted performance simulations and on-site testing to optimize thermal and fluid performance.
    • Collaborated with fabrication teams to align designs with manufacturing capabilities and installation constraints.

Education

  1. PhD Mechanical Engineering

    Tennessee Tech University
    Thesis on Design and Manufacturing of Multi-Material Composites. Supervised by Prof Ismail Fidan. Presented papers at SFF conferences with the contributions being published in variety of impactful journals.
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  2. ALM Master in Data Science

    Harvard University, Extension School

    GPA: 3.91/4.0

    Courses included:

    • CSCI E-104 - Advanced Deep Learning
    • CSCI E-25 - Computer Vision
    • DGMD-17 - Robotics, Autonomous Vehicles, Drones and Artificial Intelligence
    • CSCI E-89 - Deep Reinforcement Learning
  3. BSc Industrial Engineering

    Baku Engineering University
    GPA: 4.0/4.0
Skills & Hobbies
Technical Skills
🛠️ Engineering

Solidworks (CSWE), ANSYS, SpaceClaim, Fusion360, AutoCAD, Pre-Pro-Max

Coding tools

Python, Matlab, Pytorch, Tensorflow, Keras, SQL, scikit-learn, SparkML, LangChain, LlamaIndex

Cloud

AWS, Docker

Data

Tableau, Streamlit

Hobbies
🥾 Hiking
🚴 Cycling
♟️ Chess
🎾 Tennis
Languages
100%
English
100%
Azerbijani
100%
Turkish
25%
Russian