Joyce MoJoyce Qiaoxi Mo is a PhD student at University of California, Berkeley, and University of California, San Francisco. She previously worked at Princeton Satellite Systems before pivoting to her doctorate. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Enineering from Princeton University in 2024 in chemical and biological engineering. Joyce Mo completed her Bachelor's thesis on ``Genetically-Encoded Biosensors for Branched Chain Amino Acid Metabolism and Branched Chain Higher Alcohol Production.'' Prior to graduation, she received the Stoll Fellowship and High Meadows Environmental Institute Scholarship for her research in the Jose Avalos laboratory. Her work also included computational modeling of yeast branched-chain amino acid gene regulatory networks. Additionally, Joyce has worked on projects in temperature control for thermally-heated outdoor spaces, reinforcement learning, and model predictive control of biological processes.

At PSS, Joyce was responsible for the design of a thermal management system for power electronics for plasmas, computational fluid dynamics analysis of varied hypersonic aircraft designs, and heat engine analysis. She was the project lead on the advancement of Space Rapid Transit, a two stage to orbit horizontal, fully-reusable launch vehicle, and a micro combined cycle power plant for spacecraft. Prior to her role at PSS, she completed internships at Sampled, Telethon Kids Institute, and a research exchange program at the Technical University of Munich in process engineering and water membrane flux analysis. Read More Read Less