Entrepreneurial Initiatives/Projects
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MakerVR, Inc: Founder of MakerVR. Work with mentors to conduct market research and technical feasibility of the startup.
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MIT Sloan: Work in teams with engineers and MBA students to provide business solutions for resolving the loss of work due to automation.
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BU Questrom: Work in teams with engineers and business students to research and present startup elevator pitches, draft up corporation acquisition documentations, and conduct business simulations to manage the resource allocation for a multi-million-dollar company.
MakerVR, Inc
CEO/Founder
Started MakerVR, Inc. Developing alternative XR (virtual and augmented reality) training platform that helps STEM researchers and students get hands-on training to better prepare for research projects and classes.
The goals are to 1) reduce the significant training time that supervisors/professors spend on training their researchers/students, 2) best allocate time and equipment/material resources. (Is my pt 2) clear?)
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MIT Sloan: Hack Our Digital Future
Co-Lead
Co-led a team and proposed a digital training platform to “help low-skillsets low-income workers deal with loss of jobs due to digital changes (machine automation) by 2050” and won the 1st place, $2000 prize, in project presentation.
Project topic – “Future of work-Training and retraining of skills”.
MIT: User-Centered Design: Extreme Users and Rapid Ideation
Designer
Designed and presented a smart door-bell (IoT) product ideation process using hands-on tools, including plasticine, bio-materials, color pencils.
The goals are to 1) help user understands the product development process and 2) help designers better understand users’ experience.
BU Questrom: Backbay Battery Strategic Business Simulation – Operate a Tech-Based Firm
Designer
Conducted a simulation of operating a tech-based firm over a 10-year period.
Obtained $1707.2M cumulative profit in this simulation by making strategic decisions on R&D funding allocation and sales based on the past year’s performance and the market need.
BU Questrom: Welsh Water Company Negotiation Project
Designer
Conducted a mock negotiation with different unions' leaders(represented by students) as Welsh Water’s representative to ensure company’s profitability while providing benefits for workers and avoiding workers’ strike.
