Accountable for all technical developmentGuide go-to-market strategy in low visionDefine product roadmapManage IP portfolioDevelop and maintain strategic partnershipsSupport clinical studies

Developed R&D strategyProvided technical expertise in contact lens development

Successfully shipped first generation of Apple Vision ProStarted and lead the System Architecture, Systems Engineering, and Infrastructure teams, responsible for: • Requirements at the product, compute, performance, and testing levels • Performance validation • System block diagrams and data flows • Product level prototyping and metrologyStrategized future product roadmaps with leadership.Worked closely with technologies, silicon, test engineering, software teams across Apple on performance across modules, and on technology roadmap.

Investigated technologies across displays, cameras, sensors for future productsDeveloped architecture requirements across system stack

Led device design, fabrication and testing of high-resolution, sub-retinal implant for retinal prosthesis using silicon nanowire arrays.Defined product development plan and roadmap.Prepared functional specification and detailed design documents for all generation devices.Maintained IP portfolio and interfaced with IP counsel.Supported in funding/grant generation.

Technical lead for key wearable display components. Developed and characterized materials for nanoscale optical components within contact lens. Developed fabrication process for transparent display screen with optical paths for simultaneous view of digital content and real world. Designed and built prototype of low latency pupil tracking concept.Developed bench-top component testing setups, and fully functional demos. Generated content for demos to key investors, business partners and general public.Technical lead for partnerships with multiple universities, contact lens partners, nanofabrication and optics suppliers.Lead coordinator for Innovega at trade shows (CES, AWE, SID). Generated promotional content from graphics to videos and demo content.

Prototyped novel sensors and circuits for microfluidic Coulter counter.Investigated alternative energy sources for powering wearable devices.Developed software tools for device testing and data acquisition of wearable fetal monitor.

Developed and fabricated novel photovoltaic structures in UCSD’s Nano3 cleanroom facility. Prepared reports and documentation of process for clients.

Developed device processing for TFT displays in a cleanroom facility. Characterized material properties and device performance using profilometry, 4 point probe, Hall measurements and parameter analyzer.

Researched Si nanowire phototransistors. Modeled device physics through mathematical formulations and Silvaco simulations, demonstrating nanowire’s unique high sensitivity to light. Fabricated vertical and planar etched nanowire device arrays in UCSD’s Nano3 cleanroom facility. Characterized performance of device through both DC and dynamic measurements at various temperatures.Researched ZnO nanowire photodetectors. Characterized devices under DC and dynamic conditions under various ambient conditions.Modeled III-V single photon avalanche detectors incorporating unique negative feedback and quenching mechanism through simulations.

Fabrication and characterization of Metal-Semiconductor-Metal optical detectors using single-walled, semiconducting, carbon nanotubes as the absorbing layer.Advisor: Prof. Saraswat

Fabricated magnetically tipped cantilevers for use in testing stresses on DNA molecules.Created a program to move mechanical arm with attached cantilever around DNA sample.

Constructed/setup lab for the Magnetics Technology Division of NIST.Developed new AFM cantilever fabrication process in NIST cleanroom.