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Nanoelectronics Research Lab

Nanoelectronics Research Lab at UCSB

Apr 2025 - Present

Working under Professor Kaustav Banerjee at UC Santa Barbara on the development of novel memory technologies by integrating new 2D materials. Research focuses on low-power computing and next-generation memory structures using DFT and TCAD tools.

QuantumATK Sentaurus TCAD Device Level Design
UCSB Capstone Project

UCSB Capstone Project

Sep 2025 - Present

Leading a team of 5 students on a UCSB Senior Capstone Project partnered with AeroVironment. Designed a high-speed carrier board in KiCAD to interface flight controller with cost-effective Raspberry Pis as a companion computer.

KiCAD PCB Design
32KB SRAM Design

32KB SRAM Design

Designed a full 32KB SRAM cell in Cadence Virtuoso from bitcell layout through sense amplifiers, decoders, and control logic. Verified against DRC and LVS rules.

Cadence Virtuoso SRAM Design
USB-C 5Gbps splitter PCB layout in KiCAD

High-Speed 5Gbps USB-C Splitter

Designed a compact USB-C 5Gbps splitter PCB in KiCAD with integrated power delivery and careful differential-pair routing for signal integrity.

KiCAD High-Speed PCB Design USB-C
AI Portrait Image

AI Portrait Generator

Built a fine-tuned Stable Diffusion model via Dreambooth for portrait generation.

Stable Diffusion Dreambooth

Smart Garage Door

Autonomous garage-door control using an STM32 processor with Bluetooth connectivity, temperature sensing, and motion detection.

Bare-Metal Embedded Programming

Automated Gameboy Controller

An automated controller that uses a Nexys A7 FPGA connected via wires hard-soldered to testpads on a Nintendo DS system to interface with and control games programmatically.

Verilog FPGA Programming