Rajiv Giridharagopal
Advanced AFM Scientist, Molecular Analysis Facility at University of Washington
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRajiv Giridharagopal is an experienced microscopy and metrology scientist with over two decades of expertise in scanning probe and optical microscopy, currently leading advanced AFM capabilities at the University of Washington. He bridges instrumentation development, hands-on failure analysis from the semiconductor industry, and "big data" microscopy analytics with substantial Python coding and instrument-control experience. Rajiv has driven first-of-kind optical probing tools at Intel, holds multiple patents, and has an extensive publication record that informs both method development and applied energy materials research. He mentors students and manages multi-user labs while collaborating with vendors to upgrade and commercialize novel techniques, and his contributions to projects like pycroscopy reflect an ongoing commitment to open, reproducible microscopy software.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS High Honors Electrical Engineering, BS High Honors Electrical Engineering at The University of Texas at AustinPhD Electrical Engineering, PhD Electrical Engineering at Rice University
Github Skills (43)
visualization10
infrared10
signal-processing10
statistics10
imaging10
fft10
stem10
scanning10
microscopy10
astronomy9
data-files9
measurement9
python9
machine-learning9
transient9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rajgiriUW/igor-processing
Sep 2017 - Feb 2022
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
rajgiriUW/OECT_processing
Nov 2017 - Dec 2024
Processing OECT device data in the Ginger Lab
Contributions:2 releases, 3 PRs, 248 pushes in 7 years 1 month
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