Udayan Sharma

Ultrafast Optics Research Engineer at Ultrafast Quantum Dynamics Laboratory - Purdue University (2025-09 – 2026-02)

• Assisted with the implementation of a UV+IR laser method to excite Helium to the 1s2s metastable state so it emits ~120-nm entangled photons for later attosecond pump–probe spectroscopy
• Investigated and troubleshot PMT-CFD-TDC photon-counting hardware, validating CFD outputs and investigating trigger synchronization
• Documented test configurations/results and observed hardware behaviour for team debugging

Optics Research Engineer at Nonlinear Photonics Laboratory - Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (2025-06 – 2025-08)

• Built a fully research-implementable microscopy system from scratch for MoS2 spectroscopy
• Designed and assembled a Hamamatsu PMT detection module, integrating socket/power circuitry, soldered BNC/ground connections, housing, and oscilloscope readout
• Created a light-tight housing in SolidWorks and iterated 3D-printed prototypes to resolve fit, tolerance, wiring-access, and assembly issues
• Analysed detector threshold, gain, saturation, noise, and nanosecond timing response through controlled oscilloscope testing
• Experimented with generating second harmonics by first exhausting linear and CW limitations to successively move to nanosecond tests

Quantum Optics Researcher at John Martinson Honours Scholar - under Prof. Andrew M. Weiner (2023-09 – 2024-02)

• Investigated extending the unambiguous delay range of time-energy entangled photons using RF phase modulation for quantum metrology
• Reproduced group simulations and swept modulation index, spectral-bin count, free spectral range, and dual-RF spacing to compare coincidence behaviour
• Used Fourier and time-domain simulations to evaluate phase-control strategies for better measurement sensitivity and later experimental implementation

Creator at Symposium (2026-06 – 2026-08)

• Built an AI-native social research platform integrating an in-app research workspace, citation system, funding mechanism, and research library using agentic software-development workflows in Codex
• Designed and iterated features across frontend, backend, debugging, testing, and deployment using custom Codex skills embedded within agent workflows
• Analysed compute cost, credit usage, and runtime efficiency while refactoring the application architecture into more modular, maintainable components

Software Engineer & Business Development at Amnic (2023-05 – 2023-08)

• Built a core product (cloud recommendation engine) from scratch with 2 interns that cut costs up to 25%, and went live by the end of my internship
• Increased anomaly detection accuracy by 40% by using statistical methods such as Seasonal Trend Decomposition (Loess), EWMAs, and experimented with ML algorithms like Isolation Forest
• Built user-facing visualizations of cloud usage and cost drivers using AWS Athena; selected directly by the CTO for the project and presented results to C-suite clients
• Greenlit by the CTO to run independent outbound lead generation and early customer discovery
• Shadowed founders on sales calls and strategy meetings, then used those learnings in outreach
• Generated 4 serious sales leads, helped facilitate final CTO-to-CTO discussions, and advanced one to final contract negotiations before leaving

Research Engineer at Purdue Space Program - SEDS (2023-01 – 2023-04)

• Created 6-DoF model using Simulink models to simulate flights that predicted over 10 % apogee increase
• Conducted research using previous NASA flight documents to obtain models for our rocket's trajectory
• Built wind/gust models that developed from square to trapezoid to normalised square plus cosine models
• Contributed key calculations using applied wave oscillation models for minimising sloshing during takeoff

Founder at Research Group Matching Project (2022-09 – 2023-02)

• Led a team building a webapp to connect research opportunities and discussions across industry, universities, students, and private researchers
• Ran stakeholder outreach across faculty, researchers, grant fiduciaries, venture capital, and IP attorneys
• Organised market feedback into company strategy, solving for adoption barriers like trust, incentives, funding, and user participation
• Explored DeSci integration paths including DAOs for pooled funding, smart contracts for IP protection, and improved citation mechanisms
• Owned early product execution, including UX design in Figma and MVP coordination with the team

Bachelor of Science in Physics & Minor in Computer Science – Purdue University