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Henry L

- Research Program Mentor

PhD candidate at University of Pennsylvania (UPenn)

Expertise

Electrical Engineering, Circuit Design, Electricity and Magnetism, Integrated Circuits, Integrated Photonics

Bio

I have been fascinated by electronics since high school and built a Tesla coil from scratch as a physics project. I completed my undergraduate and masters degree at MIT, focusing specifically on analog electronics. After my masters program, I headed to Silicon Valley, where I worked full-time at Cypress Semiconductor (now Infineon Technologies) designing integrated circuits for WiFi chips. I am now a PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania focusing on mixed signal electronic-photonic integrated circuit design. While not pursing academic endeavors, I enjoy playing violin, running, camping, and working on personal projects. I have a fascination for clocks and am currently working on a custom nixie clock that uses old neon tubes to display the time. I am also a dog lover, and own a rescued labradoodle named Hank!

Project ideas

Project ideas are meant to help inspire student thinking about their own project. Students are in the driver seat of their research and are free to use any or none of the ideas shared by their mentors.

How to design as an engineer

To an engineer, the value of pi is 3. When you design something as an engineer, how do you know what approximations to make, specifications to meet, and parts to use? The process of building something from scratch can be a daunting one, but with proper assumptions and approximations, seemingly intractable problems can meet tenable solutions. In this project, you will come up with a unique engineering problem, set the specifications for the system you wish to design, and implement it using parts that meet your design specifications. The engineering design process can be applied to any type of engineering: mechanical, electrical, computer, aerospace, just to name a few!

Coding skills

matlab, python, HTML, CSS, Verilog, Arduino

Teaching experience

As an undergraduate at MIT, I participated in MIT Global Teaching Labs (GTL). In January 2017, I taught middle school and high school students at King's Academy in Madaba, Jordan. In January 2018, I taught high school students at Tecnológico de Monterrey in Guadalajara, Mexico. While at MIT, I also held multiple teaching assistant positions where I hosting lab hours and office hours. After my undergraduate program, I worked for a year at Cypress Semiconductor in California, during which, I mentored a team of 4 middle school students for The Tech Challenge. I am now a PhD student a Penn, and am currently a teaching assistant.

Credentials

Work experience

Cypress Semiconductor (now Infineon Technologies) (2019 - 2021)
Senior Electrical Design Engineer
Analog Devices (2018 - 2019)
IC Design Engineer Co-op
Analog Devices (2017 - 2017)
Applications Engineer Intern
MIT Lincoln Laboratory (2016 - 2016)
Electrical Engineer Intern

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
BS Bachelor of Science (2018)
Electrical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MEng Master of Engineering (2019)
Electrical Engineering
University of Pennsylvania (UPenn)
PhD Doctor of Philosophy candidate
Electrical Engineering

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