Kai Gronborg
Photonics Engineer at University of Pittsburgh
State College, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolKai Gronborg is a photonics engineer and Ph.D. candidate in Physical Chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh with a decade of hands-on experience designing and testing sensing and detection instrumentation. He has progressed from undergraduate research and lab instruction to applied roles at GE Healthcare and Magnitude Instruments, where he moved from application scientist to photonics engineer. Kai blends experimental optics and spectroscopy expertise with software skills—having built Java and Python tools for lab data tracking and large-scale RNA-seq processing—to streamline instrument workflows and data analysis. He regularly teaches laboratory techniques and safety, bridging academic rigor with product-focused development. Based in State College, PA, he brings a measured curiosity about quantum-informed measurement methods and a track record of translating complex physical-chemistry concepts into usable instrumentation.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physical Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physical Chemistry at University of Pittsburgh
Github Skills (8)
spectra9
matlab9
two-dimensional5
n2o5
evolution5
infrared5
simulation4
signal-processing3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
kcg12/data_analysis
Dec 2018 - Jul 2022
Matlab tools for analyzing 2D and 3D-IR spectra
Contributions:5 PRs, 10 pushes in 3 years 7 months
analyzingspectramatlab
kcg12/FreeRotor2DIR
Nov 2019 - Jan 2022
This is a repository for the development of a simulation of the time evolution of the two-dimensional infrared spectroscopic response of linear free rotors (CO2, N2O, etc).
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
evolutiontwo-dimensionalsimulationdimensionallinear
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