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Design Engineer at ASML
design engineer asml
design engineer background semiconductor , nano-structures , plasma . also passionate languages/ethnolinguistics , industrial design , analog photography/cameras , alternative energy , data visualization .
ASML
https://www.linkedin.com/company/asml
San Diego, California, United States
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Design Engineer
Illinois Engineering
https://www.linkedin.com/company/uofigrainger
•	Lead EIB committee in planning out E-Days for prospective engineering students, organizing webinars, and fostering a community out of engineering student organizations
•	Facilitated outreach to domestic and international students in order to provide information about UIUC College of Engineering
•	Implemented automatic online registration to revamp student shadow program organization
Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area
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Director of Engineering Information Bureau
Illinois Engineering
https://www.linkedin.com/company/uofigrainger
•	Responsible for coordinating between the College of Engineering and external organizations at and around the university for Engineering Day setups
•	Improved outreach network to expand prospective student attendance to Engineering Days by 52 percent through buddy-system participation program
•	Organized engineering campus lab tours for prospective students
Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area
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Outreach Coordinator for Engineering Council
Illinois Engineering
https://www.linkedin.com/company/uofigrainger
• Organized events and counseling for engineering students to explore various future career options, including consulting, management, medicine, and design
• Coordinated with founders of startups from the Midwest Area to speak at the university about their entrepreneurial successes and failures
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Executive Committee Member for Future Enrichment Opportunities Group
ASML
https://www.linkedin.com/company/asml
- Designed and implemented generic algorithm for cost- and failure-related optimization of flow injection in design-of-experiment (DOE) for EUV-generating components
- Monitored optical imaging components during in-situ de-risk tests for LPP regimes
- Conducted radiospectral analysis to qualify ion-radical interactions for intra-vessel plasma phenomena
Greater San Diego Area
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Performance Integration/Systems Engineering Intern
Center for Plasma-Material Interactions
•	Executed plasma processing + silicon engineering experiments to improve dry etch and sputter deposition for thin films to be used in IC fabrication
•	Deposited diamond-like carbon thin-films using High PIMS sputtering with Galaxy Project apparatus
Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area
Undergraduate Researcher
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
https://www.linkedin.com/company/kth
-Manufactured micro-machined temperature sensor from Si fabrication, to Si chip characterization/implementation procedures, to final system validation with research team from Ericsson AB
Järfälla, Stockholm County, Sweden
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Student Researcher
Center for Plasma-Material Interactions
•      Modified high-vacuum environment for plasma, nano-fabrication, and EUV photomasking
•	Operated mechanical and electronic hardware for HIDRA fusion tokamak/stellarator
Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Edwardsville School District
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Tutored students in mathematics and statistics principles ranging from algebra to multivariable calculus, and created after-school language sessions in order to assist students in French language and literature, supplemented with individual and group projects to enhance proficiency.
Edwardsville, Illinois
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Private Tutor
Bachelor's degree
Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering, minor in Computer Science
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Engineering Exchange (Semester, 6 mos.)
-Master's level engineering program with emphasis on VLSI + IC, semiconductor processing, and verification/validation in the world's largest ICT cluster outside of the San Francisco Bay Area
-Experienced in cleanroom micro- and nano-fabrication environments for chip design and silicon engineering, supplemented with relevant software such as SystemVerilog
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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KTH Royal Institute of Technology
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-Lead planning for IEEE events on UIUC campus as part of Technical Events Committee
-Part of TAG Circuits and TAG DSP (Digital Signal Processing), branches meant to supplement education and experience in RF, power, ICs, and image, acoustics, and display processing, respectively
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) @ UIUC
Member
Organized and participated in activities to promote understanding and development of various computational sciences, focusing specifically on artificial intelligence, graphic displays, information retrieval, and data analytics.
Association for Computing Machinery
Member
Worked primarily to promote knowledge of nuclear science and technology for general public, focusing on alternative energy benefits, comparative energy sources, and safety.
American Nuclear Society
Member
Global society for the advancement and pedagogy of French language and culture
Alliance française (société académique)
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Community for discussion of and interaction with Apple iOS development software.
CocoaNuts @ UIUC
Member
Engineering Council at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Internal Outreach Officer for Engineering Information Bureau and Officer in Committee for Future Enrichment Opportunities
Directed the activities and volunteer projects for my secondary school's French Honor Society and French Club. Fostered learning environment for French language and culture in the local area.
Société Honoraire de Français (Langue et culture)
President
Tekniska Högskolans Studentkår
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Friends of Lisle Abbott Rose, former director of public information for the College of Engineering, established a fund in his memory from which an award is made annually to recognize an outstanding senior student in engineering. In 1994, Mrs. Mildred Maddux Rose, his widow, endowed the award in perpetuity.

This scholarship is awarded to a student who most nearly approaches the ideal of technical excellence combined with cultural breadth, depth, and sensitivity.
Friends of Lisle Abbott Rose
Lisle Abbott Rose Scholarship
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Chancellor's Scholar
UIUC College of Engineering
International Programs In Engineering (IPENG) Scholarship
Awarded for outstanding new students admitted into NPRE department at UIUC (as renewable scholarship)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, College of Engineering
Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering Departmental Scholarship
Awarded in 2015, 2016
College Board
AP Scholar
Awarded 3rd place out of ~35 schools in the Greater St. Louis Area in 2012, 2013; 2nd place in 2014; 1st place in 2015 in an academic competition centered around foreign policy and affairs, where my focus area was primarily Iran + West Asia and the former USSR
World Affairs Council of America
Academic Worldquest
Awarded 2015, 2016
State of Illinois
Illinois State Scholar
Capstone/Senior Design (Plasma Engineering)
NPRE 458
Electronic Circuits+Laboratory
ECE 205
Glass Fusing
ARTD 199
Intermediate Fluid Mechanics
TAM 335
Linear Algebra
MATH 415
MEMS/NEMS Theory and Fabrication
ME 487
Mechanical Statics, Dynamics
TAM 211, 212
Modeling Nuclear Energy Systems, Fuel Cycles
NPRE 247
Modern Alternative Energy Systems, Power Generation
NPRE 201
Neutron Diffusion and Transport
NPRE 455
Nuclear Materials + Lab
NPRE 431/2
Nuclear Reactor Systems
NPRE 448
Planar Processing/IC Fabrication and Design
ECE 444
Plasma Engineering
NPRE 429
Plasma Engineering Laboratory
NPRE 423
Plasma and Fusion Science
NPRE 421
Quantum Mechanics
PHYS 214
Radiation Interaction with Matter I + II (Quantum and Atomic Theory)
NPRE 446/7
Radiation Protection
NPRE 441
Thermodynamics
ME 300
Design and Characterization  of Nano-Semiconductor Devices
IH2657
Information Visualization
DH2321
Microsystem Technology
EK2350
Photonics
SK2812
Semiconductor Device Physics
IH1611
System Level Validation
IL2450
Droplet contamination of scanner-side optics is a major setback to the semiconductor lithography industry, and has the potential to ruin entire batches of silicon wafers if the photomask is defective. This project aims to use a surface-wave plasma (SWP) in order to mitigate the amount of Sn (tin) droplets that make their way through the intermediate focus in an EUVL machine. Additionally, the SWP stability in a high gas flow environment will be monitored to ensure that this practice is sustainable at the industrial level. As part of a senior design project for NPRE @ UIUC and a collaboration with ASML @ San Diego, this investigation also details logisitics, economic factors, and other industrial components.*

*Due to the coronavirus pandemic across the globe, this project was shifted to a more computational basis as of late March 2020.
Surface Wave Plasma for Tin Particle Mitigation
My CPMI research group's project detailing thin film depositions using HiPIMS technique in order to create a denser, thinner, and more durable nanometer scale coating for electronic hardware.
Characterization of Diamond-like-carbon Thin Film Depositions in Conjunction with High Power Impulse Magnetron Sputtering and Kick Pulse
-Utilizing the cleanroom and micro-fabrication facilities at the Electrum Laboratory in KTH Campus Kista, my group manufactured micro-scale temperature sensors from pure Si wafers and micro-machining, performing most fabrication and sensor implementation steps at the level of industrial cleanroom precision
-Process included standard MEMS fabrication procedure of Si wafer surface preparation, photoresist application, soft- and standard bake, UV mask alignment + exposure, final development, etching (wet + dry), dicing/cleaving, packaging, wire-bonding, and electrical sensor characterization methods
Manufacturing and Characterization of Micro-machined Temperature Sensors
-Using plasma etching to clean Sn buildup from an EUV optical material, using SHADE apparatus
-Refined dry-etch for semiconductor mask lithography
Tin (Sn) Cleaning with Reactive Ion Etching
http://cpmi.illinois.edu/2009/02/27/galaxy-sn-cleaning-with-reactive-ion-etching/
Analyzed sensitivity and behavior of beta-particles emitted from radioactive source as a response to an applied magnetic field of varying strength.
Magnetic Sensitivity of Beta-Particle Radiation Emitted from Cloud-Chambered Cesium-137
-Brief visualization using stack of Javascript/HTMl/CSS and the D3, D3+ library to create a metric schematic of several instances for an assortment of countries, using data from WVS and GapMinder
-Experimentation with filtering and brushing through sets of data from API to single out certain subjects/performances associated with them
Average International Metrics (Selected Nations)
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Education
Tekniska Högskolans Studentkår
https://www.linkedin.com/company/tekniska-h-gskolans-studentk-r
• Involved in event planning for student union networking events for students of KTH and Greater Stockholm, assisted career fair occasions with focus on civil engineering, energy engineering, and mechanical engineering
• Promoted publicity campaign to encourage exchange student participation in KTH academic student chapters
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Planning Board Member
Science and Technology
American Nuclear Society
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Helped to promote knowledge and understanding of nuclear science and technology to the public in demonstrations regarding reactor safety and energy benefits of nuclear power.
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Member, volunteer
Science and Technology
ACM, Association for Computing Machinery
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•	Participated in planning events geared to advance the study of computer science and its applications
•	Involved in data science, analytics, and visual spatial analysis special interest groups
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Member
Education
Engineering at Illinois
https://www.linkedin.com/company/uofigrainger
Visited primary and secondary schools in Urbana-Champaign area to promote STEM literacy. Activities were academic and experimental in nature, providing secondary students opportunities to interact with a closed-system experiment.
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Committee Member of Engineering Information Bureau
Education
Duolingo
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Course contributor to French, Turkish, German.
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Contributor
https://www.linkedin.com/in/shaun-maguire-c
San Francisco Bay Area
Shaun Maguire
Partner at Sequoia Capital
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Greater Chicago Area
Akin Coffy
Student at The University of Michigan
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New York City Metropolitan Area
Bikramjit Singh
Research and Development Engineer
https://www.linkedin.com/in/greg-gushurst-667782120
Stamford, CT
Greg Gushurst
ETL Engineer at Benchmark Analytics
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashwin-balasubramanian-8ab98915
San Diego, CA
Ashwin Balasubramanian
Program Manager, New Products | Being part of progress @ASML
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San Diego, CA
Rijkaard Mendonca
Engineering Project Manager at ASML
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lance-ambourn-a6b821164
San Diego, CA
Lance Ambourn
Design Engineer
https://www.linkedin.com/in/anirbanmitra1
Wilton, CT
Anirban Mitra
Senior Design Engineer II - Optical at ASML
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rui-cheng-a8839839
New York City Metropolitan Area
Rui Cheng
Senior Design Engineer
https://www.linkedin.com/in/feng-zhu-3a993859
San Francisco Bay Area
Feng Zhu
Sr. Design Engineer at ASML
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ping-kuang-0475291a
Troy, NY
Ping Kuang
Project Lead at ASML
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-evans-5b1920b9
Portland, OR
Michael Evans
Design Engineer at ASML
https://nl.linkedin.com/in/andidine
Netherlands
Andi Dine
Mechanical Architect at ASML
https://www.linkedin.com/in/aleena-nie-b961641a5
San Diego, CA
Aleena Nie
Design Engineer 2 at ASML
https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielyasoshima
New York City Metropolitan Area
Daniel Yasoshima
Design Engineer
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohit-patel
Englewood, CO
Mohit Patel
Mechanical Engineering Professional
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sai-sumaedh-sanivarapu-1723a8ab
New York City Metropolitan Area
Sai Sumaedh Sanivarapu
Design Engineer (Robotics, Motion Control and Electrical)@ ASML
https://www.linkedin.com/in/royshounak
San Francisco Bay Area
Shounak Roy
Design Engineer at TSMC
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/akshatshenoy
Cambridge
Akshat Shenoy
Design Engineer at Renesas Electronics
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FPGA - Field Programmable Gate Array
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Institute of Nuclear Materials Management (INMM)
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Intel Student Lounge
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Nuclear Power - the next generation
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SOFTWARE JOBS JAPAN CHINA & ASIA PACIFIC
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UIUC Networking
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KTH Alumni
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Engineering Council
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IEEE Spectrum
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