Defne Dilbaz Email & Phone Number

Toronto, ON, CA

Working on MLIR based compiler - https://github.com/ddilbazTT

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

- Led the quality assessment of a new FPGA family (Sundance Mesa) by creating 97 test designs, building a scheduling service, analyzing and benchmarking metrics, doing design deep-dives and root causing failures, devising operational improvements- Created a web scraper to automate customer-oriented FPGA design creation from 60+ websites - Enabled the.

• Organized Canada’s first undergraduate hyperloop competition at the University of Waterloo with 100+ attendees
• Directed an online team of 20+ coming from 7 different universities across Canada and 5 different countries
• Arranged partnerships with leading hyperloop companies: TransPod, Swisspod, Eurotube, DGW Hyperloop
• Presented University of Waterloo with a sponsorship proposal and acquitted $15k sponsorship
• Recruited 30+ leading academicians and hyperloop executives for the CHC In-Person Competition jury

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• 2020-2021 PEY Software Engineer Intern under Design Analysis Team
• Increased customer Verilog design clocks of interest fmax by 50% through pipelining, fanout control, and intentional clock skew
• Parsed results from 50+ customer designs daily using bash scripting, python, and cronjob
• Designed an interface that generates visuals from parsed results to track Quartus per release progress

- Race crew member in Bridgestone World Solar Challenge (BWSC) 2019 as an electrical team member for Viridian, which placed 11th in Challenger Class- Used Altium Nexus for PCB design- Learned soldering and testing PCB's- Took part in solar array installation and testing with Peak Power Trackers (PPT's)

I was an undergraduate researcher at Aspuru-Guzik Group, and my research was sponsored by CQIQC Summer Prize Scholarship throughout Summer 2019. Prof. Alán Aspuru-Guzik is a leading researcher in machine learning, quantum computing, and automated chemistry; Canada CIFAR AI Chair, and Canada 150 Research Chair in Theoretical Chemistry.Throughout my.

Toronto, Canada Area

I was responsible for laboratory equipment management, student and lab safety.

I worked in Prof. Ali Bozbey’s superconductivity electronics lab. My experience includes:- Learning digital systems and Verilog,- preparing chips for testing near 0-Kelvin conditions, - documenting experimentation phases for future uses, - preparing a “Lessons Learned” document from previous experiments

Quill is TED High School’s English literary magazine. The following pieces were included:Quill Issue 1:- The Mere Master (poem, page 81)Quill Issue 2:- The Bar (short story, page 23)- Rules (short story, page 53)Quill Issue 3:- Wander and Redemption (short story, page 55)Quill Issue 4:- Selma (short story, page 9)

I was a TED Ankara College Politics and Diplomacy Club Member (September 2013 - June 2015), Club Director (September 2016 - June 2017), and TEDMUN 2016 Secretary General.My experience include:- leading a 50+ member club- holding a 300+ attendee TEDMUN 2016 with guest lecturers from the United Nations and a 100K TL+ budget- being awarded best delegate and.

Bachelor Of Applied Science - Basc, Electrical And Computer Engineering, Cumulative Gpa: 3.77/4.0, Accumulated Average: 87.48%

Activities and Societies: Director of the Canadian Hyperloop Conference Electrical and Computer Engineering 4th Year Representative.

High School, Scholar Development Program

Activities and Societies: President of TED Politics and Diplomacy Club 2015-2016 with 50+ members | Awarded best delegate and best.