MSc Thesis completed in the department of condensed matter physics under the supervision of Prof Eli Zeldov. Designed and developed infrastructure for shot noise measurement at 4 Kelvin including: cryogenic dipstick, calibration and measurement circuit. Established data acquisition and analysis protocol. Conducted electronic noise and conductance measurements at cryogenic temperatures. Experience working with gallium arsenide and graphene samples. Measured the Fano Factor of bilayer graphene in… Show more MSc Thesis completed in the department of condensed matter physics under the supervision of Prof Eli Zeldov. Designed and developed infrastructure for shot noise measurement at 4 Kelvin including: cryogenic dipstick, calibration and measurement circuit. Established data acquisition and analysis protocol. Conducted electronic noise and conductance measurements at cryogenic temperatures. Experience working with gallium arsenide and graphene samples. Measured the Fano Factor of bilayer graphene in the absence of magnetic field. Show less

Designed and established an advanced medical genetics lab for Dr. Josef Penninger, Professor of medical genetics and Director of Life Science Institute @ UBC. As technician, managed the smooth operation of the lab. Collaborating with Prof. Keng Chou, built a five-color STORM microscope, with improved color-overlapping and stabilization against thermal-drift.

Prototyped the connection of sub-micron metal contacts to carbon nanotubes using the world’s first commercially available Thermal Scanning Probe Lithography tool. Mastered a variety of cleanroom nano-fabrication techniques.

Under the supervision of Prof. Jack Sankey of McGill's Physics Department, I built an optical device and developed a feed-forward compensation algorithm that successfully stabilized a laser interferometer against reproducible mechanical vibrations. I characterized the response of the interferometer’s optical gap to a periodic impulse perturbation, built the experimental apparatus using optical components from Professor Sankey's lab, and wrote a Python code to acquire, handle, analyze, and… Show more Under the supervision of Prof. Jack Sankey of McGill's Physics Department, I built an optical device and developed a feed-forward compensation algorithm that successfully stabilized a laser interferometer against reproducible mechanical vibrations. I characterized the response of the interferometer’s optical gap to a periodic impulse perturbation, built the experimental apparatus using optical components from Professor Sankey's lab, and wrote a Python code to acquire, handle, analyze, and output the required waveforms. Show less

Under the supervision of Prof. John Bechhoefer at Simon Fraser University, I investigated the consequences of introducing a second sensor to a traditional PID control algorithm. I showed that the ‘Split-PID’ algorithm can outperform PID control loops based on one sensor. These findings were published October 17, 2014 in AIP Review of Scientific Instruments . My role in the research project was to build the experimental apparatus, acquire data from experimental runs, extract key control… Show more Under the supervision of Prof. John Bechhoefer at Simon Fraser University, I investigated the consequences of introducing a second sensor to a traditional PID control algorithm. I showed that the ‘Split-PID’ algorithm can outperform PID control loops based on one sensor. These findings were published October 17, 2014 in AIP Review of Scientific Instruments . My role in the research project was to build the experimental apparatus, acquire data from experimental runs, extract key control parameters and test the theoretical model. I used Labview to build and implement the control the control algorithm, and Matlab and Mathematica for data analysis. A final part of the experiment, not published, involved using Matlab to determine the transfer function of the device. Show less

Reporting to the founder/VP engineering of this UBC technology spinout, I created a Matlab model investigating the thermal transfer properties of Kairama’s proprietary gas compression technology. I documented my findings in a report and gave an oral presentation to the R&D team.VP engineering Don Gayton has reviewed that 'The results in the end were highly usable... Leith knows his math very well, is well spoken and a good writer, along with being pleasant to work with'.