Alexander Sludds
Senior Member Of Technical Staff at AMD
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolAlexander Sludds is a Staff Photonics Architect with 11 years of experience specializing in large-scale CMOS silicon photonic systems for next-generation supercomputing. He holds a BS, MEng, and PhD from MIT in electrical engineering and computer science, and progressed from intern to senior and now staff roles at Lightmatter, where he focuses on architecting photonic hardware and system integration. His work bridges deep research and practical engineering—translating PhD-level photonics research into manufacturable designs for high-performance computing. Based in Cambridge, MA, he combines academic rigor with startup velocity and a track record of advancing silicon photonics from concept to prototype at system scale.
11 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (58)
hardware-designs9
simulation9
hardware9
eda9
digital-signal-processing9
python9
photonics9
machine-learning9
cad9
tensorflow9
mems9
deep-learning9
addon9
klayout9
jupyter-notebook9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
alexsludds/MIT-6.058-Notebook
Nov 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:11 commits, 34 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
alexsludds/gdsfactory
Dec 2022 - Mar 2023
Python package to generate GDS layouts.
Contributions:17 pushes, 6 branches in 2 months
python
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