Varun Dixit
Austin,Texas
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Optoelectronic Engineer
ORCA Computing
01.2024 - Current
- PCB design and layout of high frequency clock boards for Quantum Computers
- PCB design and firmware development to control low level optoelectronic devices
- Developed novel packaging techniques for ultra low loss fiber to PIC coupling
Test Development Engineer II
GXC Photonics
06.2022 - 01.2026
- Die level layout of photonic integrated circuits
- System integration of photonic tensor core for optical matrix multiplication
- Trained 32x32 two layer optical neural network
- Developed Automated Tests and Testing tools for novel photonic devices
- Acquired by ORCA computing
Electrical Engineer
HP Inc.
06.2016 - 05.2022
- Worked in the Robotics Automation Team for Software Validation.
- Designed Robotics to automate the testing of HP Laptops.
- Developed circuit boards and wrote firmware for both prototype and production robotics (100s of total boards went into use)
Education
M.D. - Electrical And Computer Engineering
The University of Texas At Austin
Austin, TX04-2026
Bachelor of Science - Electrical Engineering
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX04-2022
Skills
- PCB Design and Layout in Altium
- 8 bit and 32 bit Firmware development
- Java, python, C#, and C
- Machine Learning using TensorFlow and Scikit-Learn
- Computational Electromagnetics & Photonics Simulation
Timeline
Optoelectronic Engineer
ORCA Computing
01.2024 - Current
Test Development Engineer II
GXC Photonics
06.2022 - 01.2026
Electrical Engineer
HP Inc.
06.2016 - 05.2022
M.D. - Electrical And Computer Engineering
The University of Texas At Austin
Bachelor of Science - Electrical Engineering
Texas A&M University
Relevant Projects
University Projects
- Machine Learning Music Visualizer - Created a simple feed forward neural network to extract notes from music and compared it to Logistic Regression, KNN, and SVM algorithms.
- Created a Finite Element Mesh mode solver in python using only numpy and scipy to solve a dielectric waveguide mode and estimate coupling efficiency
- Simulated the Purity of Single Photons Generated through Spontaneous Parametric Down Conversion (Difference Frequency Generation). Used python to simulate the joint spectral amplitudes of the pump and KDP crystal and how that JSA evolves as it propagates in a medium with group velocity dispersion
Personal Projects
- Person Tracking Vehicle - Built a vehicle that follows people using computer vision. Designed and 3d printed an 80-watt vehicle. Built a custom brushed motor controller capable of driving two 100-watt motors. A raspberry pi running OpenCV is used to track and detect people.
- Custom Brushless Motor Controller - Designed and built a PCB to control brushless motors at relatively high powers ~1.5kW. Used an stm32 as the controller and wrote custom FOC firmware.
Awards and Achievments
- Eagle Scout - Achieved the rank of Eagle Scout from Boy Scouts of America troop 642 at the age of 16. For my Eagle Project, I built Dog Waste Stations for the HSPCA (Houston Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals).
- 2nd Place Winner of 2018 Houston Inventathon - Built a supercapacitor regenerative bicycle braking system.
- Hart Award Winner of 2017 Houston Inventathon - Built an "exercise motivator" that gives the user a slight electric shock when it senses a lack of activity.