Armaan Diwan

Student · researcher · saxophonist

Curious about how things work—and what they could become.

I’m Armaan Diwan, a senior at Orange County School of the Arts. I spend my time moving between climate technology, energy research, engineering, and music.

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Photographs and artifacts are added as each story is documented.

Selected experiences

Three rooms I keep returning to.

One project begins with an industrial material. Another with a permit record. The third begins when an ensemble takes a breath together.

Preparing material for an Ankurite experiment.

01 / Climate technology

Ankura Solutions

Exploring whether a steel-industry byproduct can become a useful soil amendment.

I co-founded Ankura Solutions and have worked across material preparation, early experiments, product questions, and the business model behind Ankurite.

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02 / Performance & practice

Music

Classical and jazz saxophone have shaped the way I listen—to an ensemble, to a phrase, and to the people making it.

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03 / Distributed energy

UCI STEER Lab

Studying how household energy technologies show up together—and what adoption patterns can reveal.

With Professor Matthew Dean, I analyzed residential permitting data to examine co-adoption of rooftop solar, EV charging, batteries, and heat pumps.

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uci / workspace
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Working with residential permitting data — location and date to confirm.
Research poster presented at the 2026 Resilient California Summit.

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Ideas become clearer when you have to build them.

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04Product design · engineering

Voxa Cue

A wearable concept that uses haptic cues to support public speakers in the moment.

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05Structural engineering · making

COSMOS

Designing and constructing an arched truss bridge as a team.

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science / olympiad
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06Teaching · school community

Science Olympiad

Creating resources, leading teams, and helping younger students find a way into scientific research.

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Moments along the way

The work around the work.

Rehearsals, half-built structures, early tests, and the travel between them often hold the parts I remember most.

music / rehearsal
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Before the performance

Rehearsal details and the piece being prepared are still needed.

music / costa / rica
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On the road

A candid moment from the Costa Rica performance tour—city and context to confirm.

At full scale

Building the arched truss bridge with teammates at UC Irvine COSMOS.

ankura / field
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Early test

A backyard experiment where the setup matters as much as the result.

A little more context

I’m still figuring out which questions I want to stay with.

This site is a place to document that process without forcing every experience into one neat storyline. Some pages are technical, some musical, and some are simply about learning alongside other people.

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