Second Year PhD Student
Currently I am working on developing displacement interferometers as the phase readout systems for optomechanical sensors. I am generally interested in optical metrology techniques, including surface metrology, as well as novel optical system designs. The goal for my PhD study is “to be a solver and to find elegant solutions”.
Education:
- B.S., UC Santa Barbara, 2016
Work Experience:
- Optical Laboratory Technician – Ruda-Cardinal Inc., 2018-2021
- Tutor(Physics, Math) – Varsity Tutors, 2017-2018
- Research and Teaching Assistant – The University of Arizona, 2016-2017
- Undergraduate Research Assistant – UC Santa Barbara, 2015-2016
- Intern – Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 2014
Publications :
- Kylan Jersey, Yanqi Zhang, Ian Harley-Trochimczyk, Felipe Guzman, “Design, fabrication, and testing of an optical truss interferometer for the LISA telescope,” Proc. SPIE 11820, Astronomical Optics: Design, Manufacture, and Test of Space and Ground Systems III, 118200L (2021); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2594738
Specific Research Interests:
- Optical metrology
- Surface metrology
- Novel optical system designs