Helen Fan
Staff Optical Engineer at Northrop Grumman
Chandler, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolHelen Fan is a Staff Optical Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and modeling imaging and sensing systems across the visible and IR spectra. She specializes in high-performance simulation and signal-detection work, leveraging CUDA/C/C++/MatLab to accelerate computationally intensive observer models and iterative reconstructions. Her background spans end-to-end system delivery—from SolidWorks design and rapid prototyping to LabView control software and hands-on machining—evidencing both theoretical depth (Ph.D. in Optical Sciences) and practical build skills. Helen has led multimodal and low-dose CT projects that moved from simulation to deployed prototypes, including systems now in clinical research use. At defense and aerospace firms she has scaled surveillance and imaging capabilities while maintaining rigorous systems engineering practices. A US citizen based in Chandler, AZ, she blends parallel-compute expertise with optics and mechanical know-how to solve hard instrument-level problems.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Arizona
Chinese, EnglishGithub contributions (3)
hfan36/recon
Aug 2014 - Apr 2015
Contributions:57 commits, 1 push, 2 branches in 8 months
hfan36/dissertation
Feb 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:10 pushes, 3 branches in 3 months
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