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Ph.D. in Biophysics. “Estimation of variance distribution in three-dimensional reconstruction”. My advisor Joachim Frank won 2017 chemistry Nobel prize for the underlying cryoEM 3D reconstruction technique.Shareware: Author of PanoStitcher/OmniStitcher/TourMaster (download from www.pixtra.com)PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCEIonPath Inc: Principal Systems Engineer• Instrument automation from iterative image analysis- Auto-focus, auto-stigmation and auto-detector gain: Designed and implemented the algorithm from scratch (in Python) which enables fully automated image data collection of a whole slide of up to three days. - Focus and stage maps: Proposed and implemented the approach to fully automate focus target selection for maximum robustness.• Systems engineering- Instrument calibrations: Designed framework and procedures to derive transformations between various coordinates.- Characterize illumination beam quality: Designed and implemented test specimen selection and image analysis.RefleXion Medical: Principal Systems Engineer:• Machine health and serviceability: Project planning; Machine remote access; Machine data analysis• Software scoping for realtime machine diagnostics: Design the subsystem, from UI to distributed software components across the machine. Implemented its backend engines in C++ (with frontend in NodeJs/TypeScript).• Embedded software control of machine lifecycle: Design and implement state machine in C++ to control the machine’s operational lifecycle.KLA Corp, Sr Staff Software Engineer:Lead/owner of RTA (Runtime Alignment) subsystem for DUV inspection product • Software/firmware Architecture• Big Data Rate Realtime Machine Vision• Realtime Feedforward/feedback Machine ControlSoftware planning of e-beam inspection product Lead designer of various image understanding algorithms.• OCR / BCR Systems: • Wafer Pattern recognition and classification: UCSF: Staff Scientist• Computer control and automation of electron microscope with CCD camera: A typical tomographic data set of over 100 images can be collected with complete automation. • Development of automatic/interactive image processing software: EMCAT (Electron Microscopic Computerized Axial Tomography), which provides the 3-D subcellular structures from its 2-D projections. PUBLICATIONS (13)

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  University At Albany

  Biophysics