San Francisco Bay Area
· Developing an optical setup for the goniometric characterization of light sources and cameras used in key subsystems of Waymo's self-driving car. · Developing the hardware and software components of sensor characterization setups for the evaluation of potential image sensors for next-gen on vehicle cameras. · Writing and contributing python code for experimental control, data acquisition, and data analysis/visualization related activities.
· Created new optics simulations incorporating the effects of diffraction to model the performance of Synaptics' award-winning Clear ID FS9500 mobile in-display fingerprint sensor to help guide future product designs. · Developed and operated optical setups for the characterization of mobile displays and optical fingerprint sensor components to determine optimal hardware configurations. · Built and deployed a compact imaging system to quantify the impact of finger surface condition on the optical contact between finger and mobile phone cover glass. · Tested CMOS image sensor modules under various firmware configurations to quantify image uniformity, digital number, hot pixels, dark noise, and image defects. · Drove the development of mathematical models of the image artifacts that arise from the interaction between mobile display and optical fingerprint sensor.
· Oversaw the operation of and analysis of data from multiple optical tools responsible for imaging and characterizing hard-drive head components in development across all product lines. · Developed new optical test procedures and analysis methods to extract new performance parameters from both steady state and transient measurements of flying heads. · Devised new head component optical tests to confirm and characterize a new head failure mechanism responsible for degrading head reliability and drive capacity in current and next-gen products. · Collaborated with drive and component test teams in both Japan and the Philippines to develop back-end manufacturing process solutions to recently discovered head component issues.
· Collaborated with optical engineers, mechanical engineers, software engineers, and research scientists to develop, characterize, and validate critical light source components for KLA-Tencor's broadband patterned wafer defect inspection systems. · Developed and operated experimental benches integrating high power fiber lasers, pressurized lamps, UV optics, optical sensors, and control hardware both to characterize the optical properties of laser-driven plasmas and to evaluate the performance of subsystem prototypes. · Built an experimental bench that successfully demonstrated pulsed optical ignition of a lamp without lamp glass damage and established a range of safe operating pulse energies. · Presented key results to research scientists and engineering management. · Contributed to statistical process control efforts on newly manufactured tools to determine the root cause of tool-to-tool variations in optical performance prior to shipping.