Sunil Pai
Manager, Design Automation
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSunil Pai is a manager of design automation at PsiQuantum with a decade of experience bridging photonics, quantum computing, and machine learning to make scalable photonic quantum computers practical. He helped build a first-of-its-kind circuit simulation platform with interactive visualization and feedforward photonic simulations, and has patented fast calibration algorithms and low-loss photonic switching architectures. Prior roles include AI research at X (the moonshot factory) and academic leadership at Stanford developing nanophotonic neural chips, giving him rare cross-disciplinary depth from device engineering to large-scale physics-driven optimization. Sunil combines a PhD-level background in electrical engineering and CS with hands-on software and systems work, often translating complex electromagnetic simulations into deployable optimization pipelines. He’s especially skilled at turning physics-based insights into data-driven algorithms that accelerate hardware development timelines.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
Spanish, English
Github Skills (78)
python10
deep-learning10
gpu10
cudnn10
nvrtc10
cusparse10
cublas10
numpy10
cupy10
tensor10
jax10
scipy10
simulation-framework10
cusolver10
nvtx10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
solgaardlab/dphox
Oct 2019 - Jul 2022
Contributions:4 releases, 256 commits, 1 PR in 2 years 8 months
fancompute/simphox
Aug 2020 - Jan 2023
Another inverse design library (wip)
Contributions:66 commits, 46 pushes, 3 comments in 2 years 5 months
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