Summary
Julie Belleville is a PhD candidate in Applied Physics at Caltech researching active metasurfaces, photonics-enabled sensing, and inverse design, with eight years of experience bridging experimental photonics and software-driven simulation. She has a strong Engineering Physics foundation from UBC and practical industry experience as a quantum software engineer contributing to the GraphiQ photonic graph-state package, plus a brief residency at X (the Moonshot Factory). Her background spans lithography-aware nanophotonic optimization, embedded firmware for a CubeSat, and implementing inverse-design tools like AESOP, demonstrating fluency across hardware, fabrication-aware design, and scientific software. Based in Pasadena, she blends deep academic research with hands-on software development, often building tools that translate theoretical designs into manufacturable experimental components.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
California Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Engineering Physics, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Engineering Physics at The University of British Columbia