Aamir Khan
Principal Engineer at Paradromics Inc.
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAamir Khan is a Principal Engineer with 14 years of cross-disciplinary experience building high-performance hardware and imaging systems, blending a PhD in electrical engineering with deep expertise in FPGA/ASIC design, bio-optics, and lab automation. He has led development of ultra-high bandwidth PCIe/network hardware and low-noise, 40 Gbps brain–machine interface electronics, and now architects a world-record-speed live animal microscopy platform. Comfortable across RTL, SPICE, MATLAB, and HPC/CUDA toolchains, he moves fluidly between analog CMOS modeling and system-level integration—often crafting bespoke test and automation frameworks from scratch. His career spans startups and research labs in the US and Europe, and includes publications, competitive fellowships, and open-hardware contributions such as an Arduino-based PCR device. Based in Austin, he combines academic rigor with product-focused execution to tackle frontier problems at the intersection of neuroscience, optics, and high-speed digital design.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Communications Engineering, Master of Science Communications Engineering at Technical University of MunichBachelor of Engineering Electronic Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering Electronic Engineering at NED University of Engineering and TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical Engineering at University of Notre Dame
English, Urdu, German, Arabic
Github Skills (37)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ND-HowardGroup/pcr
Jun 2012 - Apr 2015
Contributions:8 commits, 3 pushes in 2 years 11 months
pcrarduino
akhan3/algorithming
Jul 2020 - Aug 2020
Algorithms and data structures practice during the COVID-19 pandemic
Contributions:113 pushes, 14 branches, 9 tags in 1 month
data-structuresalgorithms-and-data-structures
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