Curriculum Vitae
Resume
Education
University of Southern California (USC) Viterbi School of Engineering
CAMaster of Science, Computer Engineering
2022University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Henry Samueli School of Engineering
CABachelor of Science, Computer Engineering
2021Employment
Apple Inc.
SEG GPU Physical Design Engineer
2023 – PresentCalifornia State University Fresno, Department of Computer Science
Graduate Computer Science Faculty
January 2023 – May 2023- Member of the Fresno State Graduate Computer Science Department faculty
- Instructor for CSCI200: Introduction to Research, teaching first-semester graduate students on the computer science research processes, introductory academic writing, presentation skills, proposal writing, and how to perform research and literary review
Apple Inc.
SEG GPU Physical Design Engineering Intern
May 2022 – August 2022- Performed physical design verification including DRC, LVS, ERC, and ANT on active GPU projects
- Triaged verification results to diagnose systemic issues and provided wider physical design team with set of actionable issues to resolve before signoff
Mentor Graphics (Now Siemens EDA)
Research and Development Intern – SRC Sponsoree
September 2020 – June 2021- Exposed to advanced functionality and use of Calibre Design Suite, including Calibre RVE, PERC, DFM, nmDRC, and nmLVS VLSI tool-chains
- Worked with greater team to develop performance enhancements and features for the nmLVS and PERC tools
Licenses and Professional Registrations
California (BPELSG) #25324 | Texas (TBPELS) #160905
Licensed Professional Engineer – Electrical Engineering
United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
Patent Agent – Registration #80626
Professional and Standards Committees
National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES)
Subject Matter Expert (SME) – Electrical & Computer Standard Setting Committee
2025- Participated in the cut-score study to establish the passing standard for the PE Electrical & Computer exam
Academic Projects and Publications
Low-Power Network-Native Hardware Encryption for IoT
Implemented a RISC-V hardware-accelerated IoT SoC on NetFPGA
Skills
Hardware Languages Verilog, VHDL, Migen
Programming Languages Python, C, C++, Tcl, UNIX Shell (tcsh, bash, zsh), Assembly (ARM, RISC-V), Matlab
Hardware Design Tools Cadence Innovus, Virtuoso; Synopsys PrimeTime, DC; Siemens Calibre; Xilinx ISE, Vivado; OpenROAD; KiCAD PCB
Development Environments Red Hat Linux/CentOS, Ubuntu, AWS