Curriculum Vitae

Education

• Topic: Digital Photonic Integrated Circuits for High-Performance Communication in Distributed Computing Systems
• Advisor: Gage Hills
• GPA: 3.90/4.00

• GPA: 3.90/4.00

Experience

• Design and Simulation of integrated photonic structures; eg., Grating couplers, Directional Couplers, Euler Bends, Microring Resonators, Mach-Zehnder Interferometers, Multimode Interferometers, Bragg mirrors, etc...
• Design Space Exploration of optical device geometry to hit target performance specs.
• Strategic placement of active components (e.g., heaters) on photonic ICs to allow for wider process latitude, increased device yield, and to correct for temperature dependance during deployment.

• Fabrication of Thin Film Lithium Niobate ICs with electro-optic modulators and heaters.
• Process design and fabrication of Silicon photonic ICs.
• Regular use of standard nanofabrication techniques: chemical and plasma surface treatment, spin coating, optical and e-beam photolithography, development, wet and dry etching, physical and chemical vapor deposition, ellipsometry, profilometry, SEM, dicing, polishing, and wire bonding.

• Fiber-to-Chip optical coupling with Edge and Grating Couplers.
• Free-Space optical alignment and coupling in/out of fiber.
• Optical measurements with Photodiode, Oscilloscope, Optical Spectrum Analyzer, etc...

• Xilinx RFSoC and Zynq SoC development for high-speed signaling (RTL + Software).
• RF PCB design and characterization up to 5GHz from custom SMA footprints to wirebonds.
• RF simulation of lines, filters, bias tees, interconnects, wire bonds, amplifiers, etc...

• Simulations of linear and nonlinear optical phenomena to recreate results from research papers and extract device/measurement parameters not given by the authors (Python, C++, CUDA).
• Lab equipment control and automation (Python, C++, Websocket, SCPI, Serial, etc...)
• Geometry library for photonic PCells with click-and-drag waveguide routing. (Cadence SKILL).

• Compact model development in Verilog-A for photonic devices and circuits.
• Headless simulation bypassing Cadence UI database calls (>10x speedup).
• Monte Carlo simulation of large-scale photonic circuits with thousands of components.

• Automated extraction of photonic device parameters from raw wafer measurement data.
• Compression + Caching of large measurement datasets for fast access.
• Identifying issues in measurement methodology and developing techniques to correct them.

• Automation scripts for test + optimization of device + driver parameters
• Building server-based application layer for lab equipment control and data acquisition.
• Identifying RF signal integrity issues that cause measurement error.

• Developed a suite of free and paid professional audio software tools.
• Reached over 100 new paying customers in 2024.
• Awarded #3 best free audio plugin of 2024 (Gearnews.com).

Teaching