Curriculum Vitae

Experience

Yield engineer, Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, OR 07/2014 - present

• Experienced with wafer UV laser inspection tool and SEM for defect metrology
• Earned outstanding performance review after first full year at job (top 6% in group)
• Improved position correlation algorithm leading to improvements of defect positioning accuracy by more than 60%
• Re-purposed position correlation algorithm to predict a 95% reduction of failure correlation radius
• Trained robust SVM and random forest ML classifiers for reducing misdetections by more than 50%
• Implemented SPC charts/dashboards for real-time monitoring of tool health
• Developed scripts for ETL tool logs for easy failure root cause analysis

Research Assistant, Joint Quantum Institute, College Park, MD 05/2009 - 05/2014

• Optics / Physics:
  • Built high finesse tunable Fabry-Perot optical cavity
  • Designed optical systems for laser beam sizing, filtering, injection locking, fiber coupling
  • Tuned Ti:Sapphire laser power performance 60% beyond specs
  • Designed control systems for frequency stabilization of lasers and resonators (< 1 MHz)
  • Designed and implemented neutral rubidium slow high density atomic beam (< 20 m/s)
• Computational:
  • Developed MATLAB atom-light coupling MC simulation achieving qualitative agreement with experiment
  • Developed ROOT/C++ atomic beam MC simulation to guide experiment design decisions
  • Developed C/C++ utility for fast correlation analysis of raw data
  • Developed MATLAB script for data-to-data fitting, comparison and visualization
  • Administered several Linux systems in lab
• Hardware:
  • Designed and assembled PCBs for buffer circuits and photo-diode detectors
  • Implemented RF system for fast triggering (< 500 ns delays)
  • Used Arduino boards to make temperature (< 0.1 C) and laser power (< 1 mW) stabilizers
• Mechanical:
  • Designed several opto-mechanical mounts. Built by machine shop and implemented in experiment
  • Made multiple modifications on parts using mill, laithe, band saw, grinder and drill press
  • Designed and built high vacuum chamber (10^-9 Torr)
• Communication:
  • Scientific writing: co-author of 7 research papers
  • Technical presentations: 4 contributed talks at conferences
• Leadership:
  • Lead student researcher from 2010
  • Mentored of 5 undergraduate students

Trainee, Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Energies, Paris, France 05/2006 - 11/2006
Topic: Analysis of Top anti-Top decays in the lepton plus jets channel at the ATLAS experiment

• Experienced with large team collaborations
• Delved into large legacy code base for analysis of Monte Carlo simulated data
• HELEN complementary training fellowship

Teaching Assistant, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 08/2008 - 12/2009

• Taught large variety of majors in physics fundamentals
• Earned excellent TA reviews

Teaching Assistant, Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela 10/2004 - 03/2006
Taught multivariable calculus only a few semesters after taking the class

Education

PhD in Physics, 3.8, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 05/2014
Topic: Control and quantum feedback on a ground-state superposition in a cavity quantum electrodynamics system

MS in Physics, 3.8, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 12/2010

BS in Physics, 19.5 / 20, Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela 01/2007
Summa Cum Laude

Skills

Scientific: Optics, Lasers, Experimentation, Data analysis, Vacuum chambers, Simulations, Regression analysis, Machine learning
Programming: Python, C/C++, SQL, git, Shell scripting, ROOT, HTML, CSS
Software: MATLAB, Mathematica, Gnuplot, LabVIEW, Autodesk Inventor, Excel
Other: LaTeX, Linux, PCB design, Arduino, Machining, Clean room, SPC, ETL
Languages: Spanish (native), English (fluent), French (moderate), Italian (basic)

Presentations

• Cimmarusti, A. D. et al, "Control of conditional quantum beats in cavity QED" 2013 Joint Meeting of the APS Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics and the CAP Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics, Canada. Quebec City, Canada; June 2013.
• Cimmarusti, A. D., Norris, D. G., Orozco, L. A., Barberis-Blostein, P. & Carmichael, H. J. "Anomalous light shift in fluorescence induced by Rayleigh scattering" 2011 Joint Annual Conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and the National Society of Hispanic Physicists. Austin, TX; September 2011.
• Cimmarusti, A. D., Norris, D. G., Orozco, L. A., Barberis-Blostein, P. & Carmichael, H. J. "Stochastic light shifts of ground-state quantum beats" 42nd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics. Atlanta, GA; June 2011.
• Cimmarusti, A. D., Norris, D. G., Orozco, L. A., Barberis-Blostein, P. & Carmichael, H. J. "Light shifts of ground-state quantum beats: A monitor of quantum jumps" Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO): Quantum Electronics and Laser Science (QELS). Baltimore, MD; May 2011.
• Cimmarusti, A. D., Norris, D. G., Orozco, L. A. "Deflection, collimation and focusing of atomic beam from a LVIS using 2-D optical molasses" Preliminary Research Presentation. College Park, MD; October 2010.

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