Expert Details
Photodetectors for Infrared and LIDAR Sensors and Imaging; Nanomaterials Synthesis and Applications
ID: 739576
Oregon, USA
Areas of Expertise:
• Multi-Project Management (schedules, resources, budgets, risk mitigation)
• Team Management – mentoring team members to improve effectiveness and build meaningful careers
• Effective communication across organizations and with outside suppliers and customers
• Data Analysis
• Proposal and Report Writing
• Materials Synthesis and Characterization
• LTSPICE, Python, LabVIEW, Origin Software, Mathematica, basic JMP and Minitab
• Photodiode Fabrication and Characterization
• Semiconductor optoelectronics fabrication and testing
• Optical Spectroscopies
• Solution-phase Synthesis, Vapor-Liquid-Solid Growth, Air-free methods
• Scanning Probe and Electron Microscopies, EDX, EELS, Electrochemistry, Xray diffraction
Education
| Year | Degree | Subject | Institution |
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| Year: 2013 | Degree: Ph.D. | Subject: Materials Chemistry | Institution: University of Chicago |
| Year: 2009 | Degree: M.S. | Subject: Physical Chemistry | Institution: University of Chicago |
| Year: 2008 | Degree: B.S. | Subject: Chemistry | Institution: Temple University |
Work History
| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
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| Years: 2023 to Present | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: Owner, Consultant | Department: |
Responsibilities:• Supporting clients with technical guidance, assistance in finding and acquiring funding, and project management |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2020 to 2023 | Employer: Allegro MicroSystems | Title: Principal Scientist | Department: Photonics |
Responsibilities:• Set up 2 new research labs for fabrication and characterization.• Managed R&D group and site in CAMCOR for advanced sensor products. • Set project budgets, milestones, and roadmaps, and identified risks and mitigations to keep development focused on project and eventual customer goals. • Developed plan for scale-up to manufacturing including material suppliers. • Closely collaborated with colleagues across the company and globe, including sensor business unit, CMOS designers, product dev., innovation, manufacturing, legal, and export compliance. • Set up and managed services with outside providers (foundry, university labs) and worked with them to add quality checks and troubleshoot fabrication issues. • Built group culture of continuous improvement and pride in quality. • Developed trainings and SOPs. • Improved workflows, reducing experiment cycle time from 3 weeks to 1 while also increasing sample production 4x and adding materials and sensor tolerances and checks. • Developed calculation of key composite sensor metric using primary data to simplify evaluation. • Designed CMOS circuit sensor development platform and circuit simulations. • Managed DOE contract research on high energy radiation detectors. • Regularly reported to Unit Director, VPs, and external sponsors, partners. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2014 to 2020 | Employer: Voxtel, Inc. | Title: Lead Scientist | Department: |
Responsibilities:• Directed technical efforts for a group of Ph.D. and M.S. level scientists on widely ranging contract research projects. Led one-on-one, group, and team meetings to maintain focused, productive goals and efforts.• Provided regular status updates to VP of R&D and quarterly reports and presentations to government agencies. • Led proposal generation for funding and worked with external support on commercialization plans for developed technologies. • Successfully pitched new technology as part of acquisition of Voxtel by Allegro MicroSystems. • Collaborated with Lawrence Livermore National Lab resulting in a new method and a publication • Built lab safety program for 15-member team; development of CHP and SOPs, PHAs and mitigation, incident reporting; bimonthly safety meetings; state and federal OSHA compliance; training; hazardous waste management; daily, weekly, and monthly lab safety audits. • Wrote contract proposals: >$10M awarded across a broad range of topics. • Led technical efforts of a team of ~12 scientists through project planning, data analysis, and team meetings. • Coordinated efforts of multiple academic groups and consultant collaborators • Wrote quarterly reports to government sponsor and presented at annual program meetings. • Developed colloidal quantum dot-based SWIR and MWIR photodiodes and imaging arrays including material synthesis, device fabrication, characterization, and analysis. • Oversaw development of metal-assisted chemical etch and reactive ion etch processes. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2014 to 2014 | Employer: Brown University | Title: Postdoctoral Research Associate | Department: Chemistry |
Responsibilities:• Developed growth of Si2Te3 2D layered materials and explored use in optical memory storage• Characterized mechanical properties using TEM, SEM, Raman and Brillouin spectroscopies. • Micro-electronic device fabrication and characterization. |
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Career Accomplishments
| Publications and Patents Summary |
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| Patents & Publications (23+) |
Fields of Expertise
Fourier transform infrared spectrometer, infrared absorption spectroscopy, infrared camera, infrared detector, infrared detector technology, infrared imaging, infrared material, nanoparticle, nanostructured material, nanotechnology, organic/inorganic sol-gel nanocomposite material, semiconductor device, semiconductor device physics, semiconductor diode, active infrared detection system, electromagnetic radiation detection, X-ray detection