Experience

Innovusion

• United States
• Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• System Engineering Director

  • Apr 2022 - Present

  Leading System Engineering, developing sensors and sensor solutions for autonomous driving technology.

• Principal System Engineer

  • Apr 2021 - Apr 2022

• Staff System Engineer

  • Jan 2019 - Apr 2021



Coherent Laser

• United States
• Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Staff Development Engineer

  • Nov 2017 - Jan 2019

  Project lead and principle optical designer to develop high power/high pulse energy industrial femtosecond lasers. Build and deliver prototypes. • Work closely with customers, vendors, sales, and other team members (such as mechanical engineer, electrical engineer, software engineering, etc.) to guarantee successful product delivery. • Transfer the technology to manufacture. Improve the manufacturability and reliability of products.

• Senior Development Engineering

  • Apr 2015 - Nov 2017



PolarOnyx

• San Jose, California

• Senior Laser Scientist/Project Manager

  • Jul 2009 - Apr 2015

  Worked as Project Manager/ Sr. Laser Scientist on following projects: • Designed and developed a prototype of 1 µm all-fiber-based femtosecond high energy (>1 mJ)/high average power (>100W) fiber laser system. • Designed and developed state of the art high energy (156 µJ) and high average power (78 W) femtosecond Tm-doped mode locked fiber lasers and amplifiers for 2 µm region. • Constructed femtosecond fiber laser pumped optical parametric oscillators (OPO) for mid-IR… Show more Worked as Project Manager/ Sr. Laser Scientist on following projects: • Designed and developed a prototype of 1 µm all-fiber-based femtosecond high energy (>1 mJ)/high average power (>100W) fiber laser system. • Designed and developed state of the art high energy (156 µJ) and high average power (78 W) femtosecond Tm-doped mode locked fiber lasers and amplifiers for 2 µm region. • Constructed femtosecond fiber laser pumped optical parametric oscillators (OPO) for mid-IR spectroscopy. • Designed and developed a prototype of 1.5 μm, single frequency, 200 ns high energy fiber lasers. • Performed fiber laser system design including seed laser design, fiber gain stages, pulse compression, and frequency conversion. • Invented a novel Er:glass amplifier at wavelength of 1.5 μm (patent pending) • Conducted research and development on high repetition Er:glass and Yb:glass laser • Write proposals and reports, design system and test plan, execute experimental works, paper publication. • Communicated with vendors and customers for new product development Show less Worked as Project Manager/ Sr. Laser Scientist on following projects: • Designed and developed a prototype of 1 µm all-fiber-based femtosecond high energy (>1 mJ)/high average power (>100W) fiber laser system. • Designed and developed state of the art high energy (156 µJ) and high average power (78 W) femtosecond Tm-doped mode locked fiber lasers and amplifiers for 2 µm region. • Constructed femtosecond fiber laser pumped optical parametric oscillators (OPO) for mid-IR… Show more Worked as Project Manager/ Sr. Laser Scientist on following projects: • Designed and developed a prototype of 1 µm all-fiber-based femtosecond high energy (>1 mJ)/high average power (>100W) fiber laser system. • Designed and developed state of the art high energy (156 µJ) and high average power (78 W) femtosecond Tm-doped mode locked fiber lasers and amplifiers for 2 µm region. • Constructed femtosecond fiber laser pumped optical parametric oscillators (OPO) for mid-IR spectroscopy. • Designed and developed a prototype of 1.5 μm, single frequency, 200 ns high energy fiber lasers. • Performed fiber laser system design including seed laser design, fiber gain stages, pulse compression, and frequency conversion. • Invented a novel Er:glass amplifier at wavelength of 1.5 μm (patent pending) • Conducted research and development on high repetition Er:glass and Yb:glass laser • Write proposals and reports, design system and test plan, execute experimental works, paper publication. • Communicated with vendors and customers for new product development Show less



University of California, Riverside

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Research Assistant

  • Jun 2002 - Jun 2009

  Worked in Prof. Harry Tom’s group on following projects: Femtosecond laser oscillator and amplifier • Specialized in ultrafast mode-locked lasers and nonlinear optics • Designed and set up a femtosecond regeneration amplifier system • Build an Ti:sapphire femtosecond laser oscillator, with pulse width of 25fs, wavelength tuning range of 750nm - 900nm and average output up to 550mW at 800nm. Nonlinear optical studies of the water/solid interface • Developed techniques to test… Show more Worked in Prof. Harry Tom’s group on following projects: Femtosecond laser oscillator and amplifier • Specialized in ultrafast mode-locked lasers and nonlinear optics • Designed and set up a femtosecond regeneration amplifier system • Build an Ti:sapphire femtosecond laser oscillator, with pulse width of 25fs, wavelength tuning range of 750nm - 900nm and average output up to 550mW at 800nm. Nonlinear optical studies of the water/solid interface • Developed techniques to test surface layers by nonlinear optics at a molecular level • Being the first in industry to verify the 100-year-old Gouy-Chapman model utilizing the new technique, and obtained overall phenomenal result of 0.5 nm depth resolution Imaging studies of current-induced magnetic bit switching in nanowires • Process and design of nanometer-scale magnetic Ni:Fe bits in clean room • Designed deep-UV (248 nm) laser microscope to obtain images of 100nm feature size resolution • Build time-delayed probe pulses to enables nanosecond time-scale dynamical studies Show less Worked in Prof. Harry Tom’s group on following projects: Femtosecond laser oscillator and amplifier • Specialized in ultrafast mode-locked lasers and nonlinear optics • Designed and set up a femtosecond regeneration amplifier system • Build an Ti:sapphire femtosecond laser oscillator, with pulse width of 25fs, wavelength tuning range of 750nm - 900nm and average output up to 550mW at 800nm. Nonlinear optical studies of the water/solid interface • Developed techniques to test… Show more Worked in Prof. Harry Tom’s group on following projects: Femtosecond laser oscillator and amplifier • Specialized in ultrafast mode-locked lasers and nonlinear optics • Designed and set up a femtosecond regeneration amplifier system • Build an Ti:sapphire femtosecond laser oscillator, with pulse width of 25fs, wavelength tuning range of 750nm - 900nm and average output up to 550mW at 800nm. Nonlinear optical studies of the water/solid interface • Developed techniques to test surface layers by nonlinear optics at a molecular level • Being the first in industry to verify the 100-year-old Gouy-Chapman model utilizing the new technique, and obtained overall phenomenal result of 0.5 nm depth resolution Imaging studies of current-induced magnetic bit switching in nanowires • Process and design of nanometer-scale magnetic Ni:Fe bits in clean room • Designed deep-UV (248 nm) laser microscope to obtain images of 100nm feature size resolution • Build time-delayed probe pulses to enables nanosecond time-scale dynamical studies Show less