Can (Warren) Cai
Hardware Engineer at Verily Life Sciences- Claim this Profile
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Experience
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Verily
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United States
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Hospitals and Health Care
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700 & Above Employee
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Hardware Engineer
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Feb 2017 - Present
South San Francisco, California, United States Smart contact/implantable lens - Developed microfabrication processes for engineering thin film interface morphology to prevent film delamination on curved and flex substrates; reduced delamination and part failure by 80% - Characterized spectroscopic response of nanoroughen interface; refined microfabrication processes to reach targeted transmittance Thin film solid state battery - Developed thin film microbatteries with 3x more capacity than similar state-of-the-art options… Show more Smart contact/implantable lens - Developed microfabrication processes for engineering thin film interface morphology to prevent film delamination on curved and flex substrates; reduced delamination and part failure by 80% - Characterized spectroscopic response of nanoroughen interface; refined microfabrication processes to reach targeted transmittance Thin film solid state battery - Developed thin film microbatteries with 3x more capacity than similar state-of-the-art options to support smart contact lens program - Developed custom encapsulation process compatible with microbattery architecture to enable operation in physiological environments. Patent granted. Implantable hermetic chip package - Delivered custom implantable package with 5x reduction in seal margin and 2x reduction in package thickness compared to best available commercial options - Designed package layout and verified compatibility with upstream and downstream components and processes. Managed internal and external work streams across US, Europe, and Asia from component to package to system Flex substrate system integration process development - Developed custom processes for integrating components onto flexible substrates. Achieved performance requirement at system level verification.
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Technical Program Manager
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Oct 2020 - Present
- Owned full launch cycle of Verily’s Healthy at Work product, a digital COVID-19 medical device for managing workforce population health; successfully launched 6 releases through full QMS process over 7 months to support key customer commitments - Drove key feature launch in Healthy at Work to scalably implement COVID-19 testing functionality to 20k+ participants with better user experience - Managed integration of vendor test kit to Healthy at Work ecosystem to support testing… Show more - Owned full launch cycle of Verily’s Healthy at Work product, a digital COVID-19 medical device for managing workforce population health; successfully launched 6 releases through full QMS process over 7 months to support key customer commitments - Drove key feature launch in Healthy at Work to scalably implement COVID-19 testing functionality to 20k+ participants with better user experience - Managed integration of vendor test kit to Healthy at Work ecosystem to support testing capabilities across all 50 states and to de-risk surges in COVID-19 testing demand - Drove alignment between engineering, quality, legal, regulatory, UX, product, and supply chain workstreams to support successful product feature launches
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Stanford University
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United States
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Graduate Research Assistant
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Oct 2011 - Feb 2017
Stanford Department: Materials Science and Engineering Adviser: Reinhold Dauskardt - developed novel interface patterning method for improving adhesion between thin films by over 10x - drove forward multi-million dollar Department of Energy program for studying degradation of encapsulants for concentrator PV modules - designed experiments to understand fundamental degradation mechanisms of materials under intense solar radiation - developed numerical model for predicting lifetime of… Show more Department: Materials Science and Engineering Adviser: Reinhold Dauskardt - developed novel interface patterning method for improving adhesion between thin films by over 10x - drove forward multi-million dollar Department of Energy program for studying degradation of encapsulants for concentrator PV modules - designed experiments to understand fundamental degradation mechanisms of materials under intense solar radiation - developed numerical model for predicting lifetime of materials with accelerated aging studies Show less
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Caltech
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United States
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Research Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Summer Research Fellow
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Jun 2010 - Sep 2010
Greater Los Angeles Area Summer Research Fellow in Greer group at Caltech.
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University of Southern California
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United States
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Summer Research Fellow
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Jun 2009 - Sep 2009
Greater Los Angeles Area Summer Research Fellow in Armani group at University of Southern California.
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Education
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Stanford University
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Materials Science and Engineering -
Caltech
Bachelor's Degree, Chemical Engineering