Akash R. Top-Executive
Experimental physicist with 15 years experience designing, building, and optimizing quantum sensors for field application. Broad technical background in mechanical, electrical, optical, and particularly software engineering.
Headquarters:
Santa Clara, California, United States
Headline:
Director of Software Engineering at Vector Atomic
Followers:
184
Connections:
176
Company:
Vector Atomic
Skills:
Software Development, Applied Physics, Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA), Data Analysis, Simulations, Statistics, Numerical Analysis, Computer-Aided Design (CAD), Electronics, Sensors, Experimental Physics, Lasers, Free Space Optics, Quantum Information, Scientific Computing, Atomic Physics, Quantum Computing, Hardware Description Language, Monte Carlo Simulation, Number Crunching, Rust (Programming Language), Python, C#, C, C++, Mathematica, Matlab, Java, LabVIEW, LaTeX, MySQL, Experimental Design, Go, Multivariate Statistics, Research and Development (R&D), Programming, Physics
Experience:
Title: Director of Software Engineering
Company: Vector Atomic
Location: Pleasanton, California, United States
Start: Jan 2024
End: Present
Title: Principal Scientist
Company: Vector Atomic
Location: Pleasanton, California, United States
Start: Jun 2021
End: Dec 2023
Title: Senior Scientist
Company: Vector Atomic
Location: San Francisco Bay Area
Start: Feb 2019
End: Jun 2021
Title: Principal Physicist
Company: AOSense, Inc
Location:
Start: Aug 2015
End: Feb 2019
Title: Research Assistant
Company: Sandia National Laboratories
Location: Albuquerque-Santa Fe Metropolitan Area
Start: Oct 2009
End: Jul 2015
Education:
School: The University of New Mexico
Degree: Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
Field: Physics
Period: 2009 - 2015
School: Harvey Mudd College
Degree: Bachelor's degree
Field: Physics
Period: 2005 - 2009
Publications:
Atom Interferometry in a Warm Vapor (Physical Review Letters · Apr 17, 2017)
Dual-Axis High-Data-Rate Atom Interferometer via Cold Ensemble Exchange (Physical Review Applied · Nov 24, 2014)
High data-rate atom interferometer for measuring acceleration (Applied Physics Letters · Jan 5, 2012)