Kamyar Majlan
Application Developer Engineer (X-ray Microscopy)
Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolKamyar Majlan is an application developer and materials-focused engineer with 11 years of experience bridging advanced microscopy, semiconductor process engineering, and instrumentation development across industry and academia. Currently at ZEISS Microscopy in Virginia, he applies deep expertise from a PhD in complex oxide heterostructures and UHV systems to deliver X‑ray microscopy applications and failure-analysis solutions. His background includes building UHV/MBE systems, custom PLC and LabVIEW instrumentation, and hands-on thin-film growth and characterization, complemented by process engineering roles at Lam Research and product-facing positions at Thermo Fisher and Bruker. Kamyar is also an active open-source contributor to Chisel, improving Verilog codegen and adding UInt rotate ops—an uncommon crossover of hardware-design tooling with microscopy and materials expertise. Known for turning experimental setups into robust production tools, he combines rigorous research training with practical automation and software skills to accelerate imaging and analysis workflows.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Mechanical-Material Engineering, 4.0/4.0, Master’s Degree, Mechanical-Material Engineering, 4.0/4.0 at University Technology of Malaysia (UTM)Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Complex Oxide Heterostrcutures, UHV systems, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Complex Oxide Heterostrcutures, UHV systems at The University of Texas at ArlingtonSharif University of Technology
English, Persian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
verilog10
firrtl10
chisel10
scala10
automation9
automations9
chip88
rt8
oop6
multiplexing6
hdl6
rocket-chip6
functional-programming6
compiler-errors6
codeblocks6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
chipsalliance/chisel
Feb 2016 - Nov 2021
Chisel: A Modern Hardware Design Language
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 6 commits, 20 PRs in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Kamyar primarily contributed to the Chisel hardware design language project by fixing bugs related to Verilog code generation, specifically addressing printf statements in emitted Verilog. They also added circular-shift (rotate) operations for UInt data types, improving its functionality. Furthermore, the user exposed more Verilator options for trace file name and simulation speed optimization.
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GMUCERG/LWC
Jun 2020 - Jan 2023
Development Package for the Hardware API for Lightweight Cryptography
Contributions:8 releases, 364 commits, 46 PRs in 2 years 7 months
cryptographyapicryptanalysiscryptohardware-api
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