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Info
| Name | Kian Abbott |
| contact@kianabbott.com | |
| Profiles | https://www.linkedin.com/in/kian-abbott-0a670620a/ |
Education
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2019.08 - 2023.12 Cambridge, MA
S.B.
Harvard University
Electrical Engineering
- Circuits and Transduction
- Computer Architecture
- Computing Hardware
- Solid State Circuits
- Systems Programming
- Signals and Systems
- Electronic and Photonic Devices
- Nanofabrication
- VLSI Circuits
- Electromagnetism
Experience
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2022.05 - 2025.10 Founding Engineer
Portal XR
- Architected and implemented in SystemVerilog an Arty A7 based controller for a 30kHz resonant mode, two-axis scanning micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) mirror laser display.
- Engineered an analog front end to generate current controls and isolate a feedback signal for mirror actuation.
- Designed and assembled connecting PCBs including a 4-layer board hosting the analog front end, and interposing boards for mating with the MEMS mirror.
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2023.01 - 2023.05 Course Assistant: ES50
Harvard University
- Clarified course material and offered tutoring on problem sets for over 70 students.
- Debugged circuits using standard bench-top equipment (oscilloscope, digital multimeter, power supply, function generator), and provided technical support in Arduino and MATLAB coding during weekly lab sessions.
- Advised teams of 2 to 4 students in the ideation and realization of final projects on topics including gesture-commanded robotics and feedback-controlled instrument tuning.
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2022.06 - 2022.12 Engineering Intern
Second Order Effects
- Executed the layout of a mixed-signal engine controller printed circuit board (PCB) for a client pre-preliminary design review, which achieved a component placement density of over 50%.
- Reduced processing system resource usage in a Zynq Ultrascale+ Multi-Processor System on Chip (MPSoC) by moving the SPI driver for a motor controller to programmable logic, and accordingly updating C++ drivers.
- Debugged and verified the functionality of a thermal control test unit in preparation for client demonstration.
- Soldered CAN bus harnessing and installed emergency stop switches on a prototype agricultural robot.
- Compiled flight controller (FC) market research, which contributed to acquiring an electric vertical takeoff and landing FC design contract.
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2022.05 - 2022.08 Course Assistant: ES20R
Harvard University
- Tested the Komotion motion sensing platform developed for the course.
- Provided feedback on interactive Jupyter notebooks illustrating course material.
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2022.01 - 2022.05 -
2021.05 - 2021.12 Project Assistant
Edge Computing Lab
- Tested deployment of a 2D convolution custom function unit which resulted in a 53% decrease in the number of cycles spent running inference on a field programmable gate array (FPGA).
- Optimized the performance of a depthwise convolution through software and hardware which resulted in a 47% decrease in the number of cycles spent running inference on an FPGA.
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2021.01 - 2021.05
Skills
| Hardware Design | |
| SystemVerilog | |
| Altium Designer | |
| LTSpice | |
| Cadence Virtuoso |
| Programming | |
| C | |
| C++ | |
| Python | |
| MATLAB | |
| Arduino | |
| Git | |
| Bash | |
| SQL | |
| GDB |
| Web Design | |
| JavaScript | |
| HTML | |
| CSS | |
| Markdown | |
| Jekyll |