santa barbara, ca •
I'm excited to celebrate one full year at Yonder! It's been an incredibly rewarding experience contributing across both hardware and software to accelerate materials discovery. Here's a glimpse at what I've worked on:
Hardware:
- Reverse-engineered the high-speed PCB interfacing with our proprietary CMOS materials chip, then designed a miniaturized version in KiCad at one-tenth the original cost and with a dramatically smaller footprint. The new mixed-signal board is optimized for signal integrity and low-latency communication, while achieving effectively zero leakage current at the synthesis site.
- Spearheaded the design of a next-generation high-throughput chip for internal fabrication, optimized for maximum throughput without compromising data quality.
- Developed automated lab workflows integrating robotics, measurement instrumentation, and imaging, streamlining complex multi-step tasks into simple, programmatic endpoints.
Software:
- Modernized legacy lab control software from C to a robust Python/FastAPI stack, enabling concurrent, asynchronous, multi-experiment management with minimal operator intervention. This system uses a fully integrated ORM layer (Pydantic + SQLAlchemy) to seamlessly pipeline results into our cloud-based central Data Warehouse for use in proprietary AI-driven materials discovery.
- Built intuitive, user-facing interfaces in Streamlit and Next.js, empowering researchers and customers alike to visualize processed data, monitor experiment status, and track progress toward material targets.
I'm incredibly grateful for the opportunity to contribute to such an exciting mission, enabling the discovery of new materials grounded in REAL experimental results, NOT synthetic data. The future of technology is built on the materials of tomorrow, and at Yonder, we're bringing that future one step closer to today.