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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.