Xinyuan Lai
Product Engineer at Lam Research
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolXinyuan Lai is a Product Engineer with a PhD in Condensed Matter and Materials Physics and eight years of hands-on experience in nanofabrication, cryogenic measurement, and instrument design. He built and operated a UHV Helium-3 cryogenic STM system, designed twisted bilayer graphene devices, and performed low-temperature STM and high-field measurements while managing data pipelines using Python and SQL. Transitioning from academia at Rutgers to product engineering at Lam Research in NYC, he combines deep experimental physics skills with practical troubleshooting and systems integration experience. Known for clear technical communication and training, he bridges device fabrication, measurement automation, and data analysis to drive reproducible, production-ready workflows.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, 3.6, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, 3.6 at Rutgers University–New BrunswickBachelor of Science - BS, Physics, 3.6, Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics, 3.6 at Rutgers University-New BrunswickChemistry, Chemistry at Xiamen University
Github Skills (11)
statistics9
machine-learning8
python8
data-science7
data-analysis7
scikit-learn6
scikit5
evaluation3
sherlock2
deep-learning2
semantic1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
idsla/FedImpute
Jun 2024 - Mar 2025
FedImpute is a benchmarking and evaluation tool to assess the effectiveness of federated imputation across various missing data scenarios.
Contributions:7 PRs, 92 pushes, 6 branches in 9 months
sitaomin1994/federated_imputation
Dec 2023 - Dec 2024
Contributions:102 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year
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