Experience

Blackrock Neurotech

• United States
• Medical Equipment Manufacturing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• R&D Engineer

  • 2014 - 2015

  Greater Salt Lake City Area (1) Develop preliminary proof of concept ideas and execute experiments to generate feasibility results (2) Wafer-scale manufacturing of Utah Electrode Arrays (UEAs) for brain and nerve implants (3) Custom new designs of UEAs for different neural applications (4) Support different SBIR projects in executing the project milestones (5) Support Manufacturing process improvement and sustaining



Solan PV

• Process Engineer

  • Aug 2013 - May 2014

  Utah (1) Developed and optimized processes for metal film deposition as foundational material to grow Graphene ribbons at nanoscale (2) Developed wafer-scale photoresist patterning and developed RIE process to transfer pattern into Si-substrate using SiO2 etch mask



University of Utah - Employment

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Associate, Integrated Neural Interface Program

  • Dec 2010 - Aug 2013

  Greater Salt Lake City Area (1) Research and development of implantable Optical Neural Interface using Utah Slant Optrode Arrays (USOA) for stimulation of nervous tissue at Infra Red (IR) and visible wavelengths (2) Developed encapsulating polymer specific RIE methods with Design of Experiments (DoE) using JMP for Utah Electrode Arrays (3) Used Energy Dispersive X-Ray Spectroscopy (EDX or EDS) to identify material composition

• Post-Doctoral Fellow, Photonics Research Group & Laboratory for Optical Nanotechnologies

  • Sep 2007 - Dec 2010

  Greater Salt Lake City Area (1) Used advanced nanofabrication techniques e.g. dual beam focused ion beam (dbFIB) and custom-built laser interference lithography system to fabricate nanostructures in thin metal films (2) Developed experimental methods to characterize enhancement of fluorescence in a variety of nanostructures patterned in thin metal films using fluorescently tagged DNA segments (3) Surface characterization of thin metal and organic films using Variable Angle Spectroscopic Ellipsometry (VASE),… Show more (1) Used advanced nanofabrication techniques e.g. dual beam focused ion beam (dbFIB) and custom-built laser interference lithography system to fabricate nanostructures in thin metal films (2) Developed experimental methods to characterize enhancement of fluorescence in a variety of nanostructures patterned in thin metal films using fluorescently tagged DNA segments (3) Surface characterization of thin metal and organic films using Variable Angle Spectroscopic Ellipsometry (VASE), AFM, SEM (4) Familiarity and knowledge of X-ray Photoemission Spectroscopy (XPS) for chemical analysis, EDX (5) Absorbance Modulation Optical Lithography (AMOL) setup (2) Developed lithography and pattern transfer method, using RIE from photochromic polymer layer into silicon substrate (3) Optical characterization using Variable Angle Spectroscopic Ellipsometry (VASE)