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Toronto, Ontario, Canada

FPGA architecture

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Optimized bit shifter circuit in an AI accelerator chip.
• Reduced power of shifter 24% in Virtuoso, increasing AI chip's overall efficiency over 1%

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

• Designed 5G relay mounted on a UAV to extend cellular range.
• Established 28 GHz radio link in anechoic chamber after calculating communication channel noise and power

Palo Alto, California, United States

• Designed PCBs for an autonomous cleaning robot.
• Completed full design cycle on sensor PCB in three weeks to meet build deadline

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

• Completed a variety of hardware projects at the materials, IC, and PCB level for an Xray imager.
• Eliminated cause of imaging artefact, simulated imager IC readout timing, designed PCB for characterizing an ADC

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

• Researched biomedical applications of mmWave radar such as hospitals and long-term care.
• Wrote algorithm in Matlab for realtime human position and pose tracking

Elyria, Ohio, United States

• Created in-house tools and a display for electronic control units (ECUs) on trucks.
• Proposed and validated simple receiver to debug CAN bus, 98% cheaper than commercial alternative

Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

Designed instrumentation and saved 15% on electrical BOM for a microgeneration wind turbine.

Ontario, Canada

Developed C firmware and C# app for an optical touchscreen.