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Co-Founder @ From August 2014 to Present (1 year 5 months) San Francisco Bay AreaSenior Engineer @ I have broad technical experience in electrical and electronic engineering, optical and optoelectronic systems (lasers, LED’s, photodetectors, solar cells, optical fiber, microscopes), semiconductor devices and circuits, electromagnetics, spectroscopy, material science, and mechanical engineering. I provide consulting services related to the technical areas described above. Please visit my website for more information: http://www.exponent.com/amit_lakhani/ From August 2012 to August 2014 (2 years 1 month) Greater Chicago AreaMarket research intern @ Do anthropological research into unmet consumer needs where disruptive innovation can create significant value in the fields of energy, biology, information technology, etc. From January 2011 to June 2012 (1 year 6 months) San Francisco Bay AreaGraduate Researcher @ -Record holder for world's smallest semiconductor laser by 6X -Led the development and fabrication of nanolasers to replace copper wiring for signal transmission in next-generation computer chips for ultra-low power consumption -6 journal papers (54 citations), 1 U.S. provisional patent, numerous talks (> 100 people) -1st place Best Poster Award, International Nano-Optoelectronics Workshop -Corning Outstanding Student Paper Semi-finalist, Optical Fiber Communications Conference From August 2007 to May 2012 (4 years 10 months) Undergraduate researcher @ -Led the design and construction of a microscope to see atoms (3 year project) - Studied molecules on metal surfaces with implications for pharmaceuticals - 5 journal papers (20 citations), 1 conference paper, sole recipient of department-wide McCormick Award ($1000) From February 2004 to May 2007 (3 years 4 months) Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina AreaREU reseracher @ Quickly learned organic chemistry with no prior experience and developed plant-inspired nanostructured substrates to enable solar hydrogen production for fuel cell technology From May 2006 to August 2006 (4 months) Albuquerque, New Mexico Area

Ph.D., Electrical Engineering @ University of California, Berkeley From 2007 to 2012 M.S., Electrical Engineering @ University of California, Berkeley From 2007 to 2009 B.S., Electrical Engineering and Physics @ North Carolina State University From 2003 to 2007 Amit Ph.D. is skilled in: Nanotechnology, Electrical Engineering, Physics, Small Business, Semiconductors, Microfabrication, Mathematica, Matlab, MEMS, Thin Films, COMSOL, Circuit Analysis, Power Electronics, Electromagnetics, Linear Systems