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Mountain View, California, United States

Mountain View, California, United States

Led the R&D effort at Aurora to develop disruptive integrated photonics technologies for next generation LIDAR.- Technical lead on the design and development of InP-based PICs for Aurora’s long-range FMCW Lidar engine. Designed and developed multiple PIC architectures for next-gen product and long-term R&D efforts.- Initiated and actively led strategic partnerships with external foundries. Defined Aurora’s R&D and product roadmap for novel III-V components and PICs.- Designed and developed high-power semiconductor optical amplifiers and lasers for fiberless FMCW Lidar.

Advanced Development Group, Sunnyvale, Ca

- Technical lead on the design and development of InP-based PICs for microwave photonics applications as part of the AFRL-funded RIPTIDE program and in collaboration with Northrop Grumman Corporation.- Technical lead on the DARPA-funded DODOS program. Performed the design, fabrication and characterization of monolithically integrated mode-locked lasers for optical frequency comb synthesis. Actively led Infinera’s collaboration with university partners and DARPA through multiple phases of the DODOS program.- Technical lead on the design, development and characterization of Infinera’s Foundry PDK components for AIM Photonics program. Designed fabrication methodologies, fab process flows and design rules for Foundry PDK components in collaboration with Infinera’s fab team. Designed and developed compact models for Infinera’s Foundry PDK components for integration into commercially available optical circuit simulation engines. - Technical lead on the development of Infinera’s EPDA platform for PIC design and layout, including design of p-cells and hierarchal schematic-driven PIC layout with LVS and DRC as part of the AIM Photonics program. Extensively collaborated with multiple DoD customers to develop PIC architectures, designed the PIC layouts using Infinera’s Foundry PDK components and EPDA tools.

Transmission Components R&D, Milpitas, Ca

- Technical lead on JDSU’s Innovation Council program, designed and developed low-loss waveguide technologies and material platforms for InP-based PICs. Led the technology transfer of low-loss waveguides and integration platform from R&D into Lumentum’s next-generation InP-based PIC products.- Designed and developed PICs with widely tunable semiconductor lasers and integrated optical filters with narrow-linewidth and high SMSR for Lumentum’s coherent communications products.

Ece Department In Collaboration With Prof. Larry Coldren

- Technical lead on a joint collaboration between UCSB and the University of Massachusetts (Dartmouth) as part of the DARPA-funded PHOR-FRONT program. Designed, fabricated and developed monolithically integrated all-optical phase-locked loop (OPLL) based coherent receivers for high dynamic range RF/photonic links with record SFDR of 131.3 dB·Hz2/3. Research featured in Electronics Letters.- Designed, fabricated and characterized PICs with injection-locked coupled-cavity lasers as part of DARPA seedling.- Led numerous proposal writing efforts to different government funding agencies, including NSF, DARPA and DoD.

Crawford Hill Labs., Holmdel, Nj

- Designed and developed wavelength converters with integrated optical pulse reshaping elements as part of the DARPA-funded DOD-N program. Designed and developed InP-based PICs for advanced optical signal processing applications in high bit-rate optical communications links.- Studied ultra-fast wavelength switching in widely tunable SG-DBR lasers for applications in optical packet switching as part of the DARPA-funded NGI program.- Designed and developed InP-based PICs for hybrid integration with PLC waveguides as part of the DoD-funded Photonic Logic program.

Ph.D., Applied Physics

Thesis topic: All-Optical Logic Circuits Based on Polarization Properties of Non-Degenerate Four-Wave Mixing. Advisor: Prof. Kerry Vahala.

M.Sc. (5 Year Integrated Program), Physics

Activities and Societies: Azad HallMajor in Solid State Physics.