Yu Yahagi
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Experience
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Movu
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United States
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Medical Equipment Manufacturing
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1 - 100 Employee
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Chief Scientist
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Dec 2015 - Present
Medical device software development • Architect and implement real-time image acquisition software with multiple data sources and complex acquisition workflows that control optical and electronic components for marketed ophthalmic imaging devices and bench-top setups (C++, C#, LabVIEW, and Python) • Develop signal processing and image processing algorithms for automated data analyses, such as feature detection and optical aberration correction (Matlab, Python, and C++) • Debug low-level device operations and performances, such as microcontroller firmware and USB data stream • Design and implement user interface software integrating device control and business logic in ophthalmology, such as surgery planning, hardware fault tolerance, license management, database migration, and communication to third-party systems (C# and LabVIEW) • Lead software life cycle management in accordance to IEC 62304 (Medical device software–Software life cycle processes) by performing risk assessments, analyzing and defining requirement specifications, and executing verification and validation plans Optoelectronic imaging systems for ophthalmic applications • Build fiber-based and free-space optical imaging setups in a lab and quantitatively characterize their optical and electrical performance, such as sensitivity, resolution, aberrations, and synchronization timing (swept-source OCT and camera-based imaging systems) • Design and prototype ophthalmic imaging devices with active optical and electronic components, such as highspeed data acquisition boards, FPGA signal processing units, laser scanning systems, video camera control, actuators, and synchronized illumination control • Direct and review optomechanical hardware design, analyzing mechanical tolerance, load bearing during transportation, manufacturing cost, alignment methods, and thermal shocks Show less
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Research Assistant
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Sep 2009 - Nov 2015
Working in the Applied Optics group at UC Santa Cruz on nanomagnetism. My major contributions to the group are operation/refinement of a time-resolved magnetooptic Kerr effect (TR-MOKE) microscopy system and development of a micromagnetic simulation procedures.
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Teaching Assistant
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Sep 2012 - Dec 2012
Led lab and discussion sections on material science. My responsibility included supervision on lab works, grading reports, and coaching scientific writing.
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Education
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University of California, Santa Cruz
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Electrical and Electronics Engineering -
Tokyo Institute of Technology
Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering