Experience

AIM Photonics

• United States
• Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Summer Intern

  • May 2023 - Present

  - Learned MEEP FDTD - Designed, simulated, and optimized a TM grating coupler using MEEP FDTD - Used the CCI RPI Supercomputer, AiMOS, to optimize grating coupler geometry - Learned MEEP FDTD - Designed, simulated, and optimized a TM grating coupler using MEEP FDTD - Used the CCI RPI Supercomputer, AiMOS, to optimize grating coupler geometry



University of Rochester

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• PHD Student

  • Aug 2021 - Present

  Professor Pablo A. Postigo's Research Group: - Trained in (SiO, SiO2, SiN) nano fabrication at Cornell NanoScale Facility (CNF) & (TiO2) sputtering at URnano - Designed, built, and calibrated photonic integrated circuit inspectors and cameras Teaching Assistant: - Supervising undergraduate students while they learn to sputter TiO2 on substrates for fabricating color targets. Professor Pablo A. Postigo's Research Group: - Trained in (SiO, SiO2, SiN) nano fabrication at Cornell NanoScale Facility (CNF) & (TiO2) sputtering at URnano - Designed, built, and calibrated photonic integrated circuit inspectors and cameras Teaching Assistant: - Supervising undergraduate students while they learn to sputter TiO2 on substrates for fabricating color targets.



TOPTICA Photonics, Inc.

• Rochester, New York Area

• Service Engineer

  • May 2019 - Jul 2021

  Diagnosing and repairing lasers - Aligning external cavity diode lasers - Optimizing tapered amplifier seeding - Aligning second and fourth harmonic generating cavities Installing second and fourth harmonic generating lasers at customer facilities, and training staff on the installed laser Supporting customers with their experiments - Teaching how to lock laser frequencies with PID feedback loops, in particular using Pound-Drever-Hall techniques. Diagnosing and repairing lasers - Aligning external cavity diode lasers - Optimizing tapered amplifier seeding - Aligning second and fourth harmonic generating cavities Installing second and fourth harmonic generating lasers at customer facilities, and training staff on the installed laser Supporting customers with their experiments - Teaching how to lock laser frequencies with PID feedback loops, in particular using Pound-Drever-Hall techniques.



Luminit Light Shaping Diffusers®

• United States
• Nanotechnology Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Process Engineer I

  • Feb 2017 - Apr 2019

  Design, build, and align optical systems for recording monochrome, and RGB volume holograms.Heavily involved in taking a product from R&D to mass production by designing, writing, and implementing processes to mass produce volume holograms.Writing LabVIEW VIs to automate manufacturing machines and data collection. Analyzed collected data with python and excel.Writing proposals for government contracts.

• R&D Lab Technician, Level 3

  • Nov 2016 - Feb 2017

  Cut, clean, and laminate glass substrates.Worked with complex optical systems consisting of lenses, mirrors, and splitters.Exposed photopolymer laminated glass substrates to RGB laser light at specific times using LabView.Kept an accurate and up-to-date notebook.Worked with engineers to improve experimental processes.



California State Polytechnic University-Pomona

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Physics Teaching Assistant

  • Sep 2014 - Jun 2016

  Help professors teach physics concepts by assisting them during class time, as well as holding office hours to help students on a one-to-one basis.

• Student Researcher

  • Jun 2013 - Jun 2016

  Cleaved, and spliced optical fibers to collect data with LabVIEW.Fabricated fiber optic tapers for bio-sensing applications.Constructed microfluidics housing for tapers.Analyzed experimental results in Mathematica and Igor ProSenior Project:-Working with Edwards LifeSciences to continue research done at Keck Graduate Institute.-Developing next generation heart catheters.-Responsible for designing fiber tops for optimal light delivery, measuring optical energy, and chemical treatment of fiber surfaces. Show less



Keck Graduate Institute

• United States
• Higher Education
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Student Reseacher

  • Apr 2015 - Jun 2015

  Worked with an interdisciplinary team, from Edwards LifeSciences and Keck Graduate Institute, to produce preliminary experimental results for next generation heart catheters. Worked with an interdisciplinary team, from Edwards LifeSciences and Keck Graduate Institute, to produce preliminary experimental results for next generation heart catheters.