Hsuan-tung Peng
Staff Photonics Engineer at Lightmatter
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolHsuan-tung Peng is a Staff Photonics Engineer based in Palo Alto with eight years of experience at the intersection of photonics and applied machine learning. He holds a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Princeton and has contributed R&D expertise at PsiQuantum before joining Lightmatter, where he advanced from Senior to Staff roles. His work focuses on neuromorphic photonics, photonics-assisted AI hardware, NLP, and AI for wireless communication, blending theoretical rigor with hardware implementation. Comfortable moving between lab-scale experiments and product-focused engineering, he bridges quantum/photonic research and practical AI accelerators. Colleagues describe him as a researcher-engineer who translates complex physical systems into scalable ML-capable hardware. He brings a strong physics foundation from National Taiwan University and a track record of impactful internships and research collaborations.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics at National Taiwan UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Princeton University
English, Mandarin
Github Skills (6)
backend8
klayout7
eda5
qt4
instrumentation3
automation3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Hsuan-Tung/PCICN_RFFingerprinting
Jun 2021 - Jun 2021
Contributions:23 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 24 days
Hsuan-Tung/natural-adversary
Jan 2020 - Jan 2020
Generating Natural Adversarial Examples, ICLR 2018
Contributions:1 push in 6 days
pytorchiclrdeep-learningadversarialcomputer-vision
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