Experience

Ayar Labs

• United States
• Computer Hardware Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Sr. Staff Photonics Engineer

  • Oct 2023 - Present

  San Francisco Bay Area Develop and bring up ultra-high density optical interconnect to enable AI/ML and HPC system.



Meta

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Optical Engineer - AI/HPC System Hardware

  • Sep 2020 - Oct 2023

  San Francisco Bay Area Building high-volume optical hardware to support hyperscale data center networks and AI/HPC accelerated systems.



Voyant Photonics

• United States
• Nanotechnology Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Photonics Test Engineer

  • Aug 2020 - Sep 2020

  New York, New York, United States Developed novel methods for device variation extraction for commercial silicon photonics process.



Columbia University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Research Assistant - Electrical Engineering

  • Sep 2015 - Apr 2020

  New York, New York, United States Built integrated optical switch devices on silicon photonics. Developed novel wavelength selective optical switching element with microring-assisted Mach-Zehnder Interferometer. Studied calibration, control, and routing techniques to optimize integrated photonic switch performance.



Nokia Bell Labs

• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• Optical Researcher - Silicon Photonics

  • Jun 2017 - Aug 2017

  Holmdel, New Jersey, United States Die-level validation of hybrid silicon and III-VI photonic integrated circuits (PIC). Design, simulation, and optimization of polarization diverse devices in silicon photonics.



IBM

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• System Performance Engineer - System Optimization Competency Center

  • May 2013 - Aug 2014

  Markham, Ontario, Canada Developed and optimized anomaly detection software for real-time problem determination in high performance computing (HPC) systems. Performance optimization for Big Data applications to improve throughput and reduce resource utilization.



Ciena

• United States
• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• Validation Engineer - Product Verification

  • May 2012 - Aug 2012

  Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Functionality and performance characterization of optical transceivers. Tooling development for verification and provisioning of metro optical networking systems.



Royal Military College of Canada/Collège militaire royal du Canada

• Canada
• Defense and Space Manufacturing
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Research Assistant

  • May 2011 - Aug 2011

  Kingston, Ontario, Canada Research in organic dye properties and molecular glasses. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0040402012015177