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TL;DR Space + Travel = ☀️SUMMER🚀

What a dream summer!

Siena, Italy

It kicked off with a holiday to Italy where I saw the beautiful cities of Siena, Florence, Pisa and Luca with a friend from ISSYP 2019 and a new friend.

Good chaps. Forgive us it was 6am...

Returning to Oxford for the Trinity Commemoration Ball before making a quick stop in London before heading to Boston!

With Cruz Soto, president of MIT Rocket Team

From Boston, I visited MIT and Harvard, enjoying what the city had to offer. Then New Haven, CT for a lunch with a fellow Assassin (OUFC).

Next stop, NYC.

In front of the Empire State Building

Everything you could ever want is there, friends from everywhere. Overwhelming at times but energetically epic.

In Front of the White House

In DC, I extremely unfortunately missed the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum because it was closed for renovation but Capitol Hill with an Oxford friend is always lovely.

4th of July in OC, CA. Excellent stuff.

I love LA. It felt like home.

Visiting Space X at 1 Rocket Road, Hawthorne, California, USA

LA, the capital of both the aerospace and entertainment industries. Great weather and people. Go to Venice beach to have your eyes opened to super cool and interesting facets of life.

First day at NASA JPL, I forgot how to smile.

After a solid 3 weeks of travelling, I buckled down to start my internship at NASA JPL.

With the Perseverance Rover at NASA JPL

In the Materials Development & Manufacturing Technology Group (357H), I was a researcher in computational materials and physics informed machine learning with high performance computing for materials thermodynamic assessment in pycalphad with Dr. Richard Otis (technologist/creator of pycalphad). I was also a characterisation scientist studying interfacial features in joints between additive manufactured 6061 aluminium alloy and conventionally manufactured aluminum alloys as a feasibility test for potential application in spacecraft heat rejection systems (HRS) and deep learning for image segmentation of grain boundaries for magnetic shielding prediction in mu-metals with Samad Firdosy (materials engineer).

Richard Otis

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology - Cited by 2.150

Google Scholar

GOAT🐐

Samad Firdosy | Science and Technology

NASA JPL

GOAT Supervisor now🐐

I even got to record a podcast episode with one of my mentors Dr. Scott Roberts!

Podcast session with Dr. Scott Roberts! GOAT🐐

How often are you in the presence of an Artemis Astronaut and a Nobel Laureate?

To say it was a lifechanging summer is understating it. It truly changed the course of my life and was a source of incredible growth. I will look back on this summer grateful with the fondest memories.

Here are some photos from the summer. BONUS: I managed to get up to the Bay Area for a weekend.

Giants' Stadium with friend from Oxford and On Deck

SF adventures

When in Livermore...

When at the Google Campus you must pray to Android

The rare times Oxford goes to Stanford instead of the other way round

In mission control with the legendary peanuts

All communications with probes go through JPL

Aerospace Games

With the President of SEDS at Florida International University

Sequoia National Park

Home for 12 weeks.

Supported by the Newton-Ungku Omar Fund awarded by the Malaysian Industry-Government Group for High Technology (MIGHT).