Nicolas Tanaka
Assistant Staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolNicolas Tanaka is an Assistant Staff engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory with 13 years of hands-on experience designing, modeling, and testing RF and photonic hardware for communications and radar systems. He combines deep theoretical knowledge—from transmission line and resonator theory to quantum and control theory—with practical lab expertise in VNAs, oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, laser diodes, AOMs/EOMs, and automated test systems. His work spans MATLAB, ADS, Ansys optical modeling, PCB design, SolidWorks, and GPIB/SCPI automation, enabling rapid prototyping and high-precision measurements like a 0.2 pm Fabry–Pérot interferometer. Nicolas has repeatedly improved experimental stability and throughput—whether assembling compact 300+ component optics plates or automating transistor probes to run in hours rather than days. Based in Cambridge, MA, he brings a rare blend of physics-first intuition and practical engineering that accelerates lab-to-field transitions.
13 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Physics, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Physics, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (24)
duplex9
framwork9
full-duplex8
gstreamer8
frontend6
speech-recognition6
speech6
react6
ctc6
nrf528406
kicad6
keyboard5
rp20405
cortex5
speech-to-text5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nbravo/dotfiles
Jan 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
nbravo/18.335
Feb 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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