Jonathan Birge
Group Leader at MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolJonathan Birge is a Group Leader at MIT Lincoln Laboratory who leads a 50-person team developing AI-enabled optical sensing and advanced active optical systems. With 15 years of experience spanning space payload program management, ultrafast optics, lidar, and machine learning, he has authored over 65 peer-reviewed papers and holds five patents. He built high-performance simulation and design algorithms during his PhD and postdoc—work that was commercialized and used to accelerate laser modeling by orders of magnitude. A pilot with 350 flight hours and a history of product development for industry (including polarization optics for 3D cinema), he combines deep technical rigor with practical prototyping and business development. Colleagues describe him as a rare blend of researcher, inventor, and operational leader who pushes lab-scale innovations toward real-world systems.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering with minor in Computational Physics, Ph.D., Electrical Engineering with minor in Computational Physics at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBS, Engineering, BS, Engineering at Swarthmore CollegeMS, Optical electronics, MS, Optical electronics at University of Colorado Boulder
English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (107)
accelerate-framework10
trigonometry10
speedtest10
delay10
matrix9
digital-signal-processing9
flask-extensions9
network9
swift8
matlab8
signal-processing8
octave8
convolution8
fft8
signal8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
jonbirge/matlab-utils
Mar 2011 - Dec 2021
Various MATLAB utilities for GUI development and general analysis
Contributions:88 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 10 years 11 months
gui-developmentoctavematlabgui
jonbirge/ecochef
Feb 2022 - Jul 2022
EcoChef iOS app
Contributions:2 releases, 16 PRs, 114 pushes in 4 months
regressionthermal-analysisios-apptimerswift
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