Experience

Halo Industries, Inc.

• United States
• Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Principal Optical Scientist, Staff Software Engineer & Engineering Manager

  • Aug 2022 - Present

• Principal Optical Scientist

  • Jun 2020 - Present



Fathom Computing

• Palo Alto

• Senior Optical Physicist & System Architect

  • Jul 2017 - May 2020

  Designed novel machine learning accelerator with > 1,000,000 optical channels for >10x speed-ups on large-scale training problems. Full system design and modelling, from the ray & wave optics of optical interconnects to high-level software architecture. Design, construction, alignment & instrumentation of three record-breaking prototypes. Optical system optimization tolerancing for manufacture using Zemax. ‘Full spectrum’ startup experience; codesigned with team spanning… Show more Designed novel machine learning accelerator with > 1,000,000 optical channels for >10x speed-ups on large-scale training problems. Full system design and modelling, from the ray & wave optics of optical interconnects to high-level software architecture. Design, construction, alignment & instrumentation of three record-breaking prototypes. Optical system optimization tolerancing for manufacture using Zemax. ‘Full spectrum’ startup experience; codesigned with team spanning mechanical engineering, mixed-signal & digital electronics, machine learning; fund raising & pitching. Show less Designed novel machine learning accelerator with > 1,000,000 optical channels for >10x speed-ups on large-scale training problems. Full system design and modelling, from the ray & wave optics of optical interconnects to high-level software architecture. Design, construction, alignment & instrumentation of three record-breaking prototypes. Optical system optimization tolerancing for manufacture using Zemax. ‘Full spectrum’ startup experience; codesigned with team spanning… Show more Designed novel machine learning accelerator with > 1,000,000 optical channels for >10x speed-ups on large-scale training problems. Full system design and modelling, from the ray & wave optics of optical interconnects to high-level software architecture. Design, construction, alignment & instrumentation of three record-breaking prototypes. Optical system optimization tolerancing for manufacture using Zemax. ‘Full spectrum’ startup experience; codesigned with team spanning mechanical engineering, mixed-signal & digital electronics, machine learning; fund raising & pitching. Show less



Imperial College London

• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Fellow in Optical Physics

  • Dec 2015 - Jun 2017

  Supervised amplified ultrafast laser laboratory of 4-8 masters/PhD students; scheduling, safety, training. Ultrafast laser and x-ray experiments; high-energy few-cycle infrared pulses; molecular high-order harmonic generation spectroscopy.

• Postdoctoral Researcher

  • Apr 2013 - Dec 2015

  Bespoke hardware instrumentation: wrote ~10 control & diagnostic applications in MATLAB & Python.



ICFO

• Spain
• Research
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Marie Curie Intra-European Research Fellow, Attoscience and ultrafast optics

  • Nov 2010 - Mar 2013

  Strong field physics and high-order harmonic generation, ultrafast optics, ultrashort pulse metrology, design of ultrafast amplified laser systems Strong field physics and high-order harmonic generation, ultrafast optics, ultrashort pulse metrology, design of ultrafast amplified laser systems