Experience

Pointcloud Inc

• United States
• Nanotechnology Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Silicon Photonics Senior Scientist

  • Aug 2018 - Present



Satori

• San Francisco Bay Area

• Consultant

  • Feb 2018 - Jul 2018

  Provided backend and frontend engineering services to Satori, a stealth startup in the self realization space, using machine learning to simulate alternate futures. Provided backend and frontend engineering services to Satori, a stealth startup in the self realization space, using machine learning to simulate alternate futures.



Kogence

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting

• Founder

  • Dec 2015 - Feb 2018

  Was initial founder of Kogence (which was called Nuvoler till December 2016). Also the lead designer & developer who designed & implemented the Kogence platform (including writing > 95%, i.e. > 140K lines, of the original codebase). The Kogence platform enables scientists to collaborate, document, version control, run, and interactively visualize scienti c problems in the cloud. Kogence removes the pain scientists encounter before actually solving problems i.e. pain related to searching/setting-up scienti c models, software, computing resources, visualization & other collaboration tools. Kogence also removes wheel reinvention by allowing scientists to share their models and simulators. Show less



Stanford University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Postdoctoral Fellow

  • May 2011 - Aug 2016

  My research was primarily focused on understanding the interaction between matter and light. Recent research includes applications for: • Energy: managing thermal radiation from nanoscale objects and open-circuit voltage for solar cells.• On-chip photonics: the dynamic control of light in optical resonators.• Electric cars: Transferring power wirelessly to vehicles cruising at highway speed.These projects include the optical design, simulation, and experimental validation. My expertise in computational optics leverages my research and applied engineering background in electromagnetism and high performance computing. Specific skills sets include:• coupled mode theory• finite-difference time-domain (FDTD)• finite-difference frequency-domain (FDFD)• rigorous coupled wave analysis (RCWA)• MIT Photonic Bands (MPB)• ray tracingI also have extensive experience with developing and administering high performance computing systems for supercomputing simulation applications:• Mentor and lead computing specialist. Duties include setting up and maintaining High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster, and instructing graduate students on running numerical computations using HPC. Show less

• Course Professor

  • Mar 2014 - Jun 2014

  Instructed the graduate level course on Numerical Electromagnetics (EE256):• Redesigned course structure and integrated the Finite-Difference Frequency-Domain (FDFD) method, in addition to the Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) method.• Course materials now include my research on FDTD and FDFD as applied to photonics.• Received exceptional course ratings. Top ten electrical engineering course in Spring 2014.

• Graduate Research Assistant, Fan Group

  • Jan 2005 - May 2011

  My research was focused on the dynamic control of light in on-chip microresonator sytems:• Design/simulation of optical switch with reduced input energy requirements in a high-speed communication system. Work was selected as editor choice in Science magazine.• Provided analytical representation for experiment results on on-chip, all-optical analogue of Electromagnetically Induced Transparency based on the response of coupled optical microresonators. Work was reviewed in Nature magazine.• Authored object-oriented based parallelized Finite-Difference-Time-Domain (FDTD) simulation code that was used by various researchers to explore different physical phenomena.• Design/simulation of optical system for Stanford’s slow light team.• Design/simulation of a novel light-stopping scheme based on loss. Work was reviewed by Laser Focus magazine.• Implemented 2D phononic bandstructure solver in MIT Photonic Bandgap software. Show less

• Graduate Research Assistant, Harris Group

  • Jan 2004 - Jan 2005

  My research was focussed on Electromagnetic Induced Transparency (EIT).• Designed and built an in-house 200 MHz Phase-Locked Loop (PLL) that was used in experiments studying EIT-based nonlinear optical processes.• Studied the possibility of room-temperature EIT and was involved in initial design and implementation of experimental setup.



Onetta Inc

• United States
• Telecommunications

• Optical/Operations Engineer

  • 2000 - 2002

  I was the fourteenth employee in this startup which designed and manufactured optical amplifiers. Our customers included Cisco and Sycamore Networks: • Lead hardware designer and implementer of testing stations. • Lead software designer and implementer of Manufacturing Execution System (MES). • Ensured on-time delivery of optical amplifiers to customers. • Led the training of technicians on the use of optical amplifier testing stations. I was the fourteenth employee in this startup which designed and manufactured optical amplifiers. Our customers included Cisco and Sycamore Networks: • Lead hardware designer and implementer of testing stations. • Lead software designer and implementer of Manufacturing Execution System (MES). • Ensured on-time delivery of optical amplifiers to customers. • Led the training of technicians on the use of optical amplifier testing stations.



Ecole supérieure d'Ingénieurs en Génie électrique, Rouen, France

• Rouen, Haute-Normandie, France

• Research Assistant

  • 1998 - 1999

  Modelling and simulation of the various switching techniques used in telecommunication networks. Modelling and simulation of the various switching techniques used in telecommunication networks.



Singapore Armed Forces

• Defense & Space
• 700 & Above Employee

• Infantry Officer

  • Oct 1994 - Aug 1995

  I was an instructor (Rank: Lieutenant) in a company of about 160 officer cadets. Duties included organizing platoon to company level military exercises, and instructing/mentoring officer cadets. I was an instructor (Rank: Lieutenant) in a company of about 160 officer cadets. Duties included organizing platoon to company level military exercises, and instructing/mentoring officer cadets.