Alfred Davidson is a research-focused electrical engineer and PhD candidate at Columbia University with nine years of hands-on experience across academia and industry. He has blended deep technical work—research scholarship and a visiting research role at Columbia—with practical SoC physical design automation at Qualcomm, scripting Tcl for Cadence Innovus flows. His background includes embedded systems design from TI’s MSP430 program where he took a project from schematic to PCB and built a semiconductor curve tracer, showing comfort across hardware and software boundaries. Based in New York, he thrives on iterative improvement—“negative feedback and optimistic interpolation”—applying rigorous experimental thinking to complex system problems. Alfred’s profile suggests a rare combination of academic research depth and applied engineering pragmatism, well-suited to bridging lab innovations and production flows.
9 years of coding experience
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical Engineering at Columbia University in the City of New York
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Alfred Davidson - Research Scholar at SRC Research Scholars Program