Professional photon slinger 📡 🛰🚀 | Integrated Microwave Photonics Lab | PhD, Researcher & Lecturer @ Sydney Uni, Free-Space Optical Communications and LiDAR | Formerly: JPL, UMich

🚀 Virgin Orbit Launch Demo 2 ‘21
🛰 MiTEE One ‘21 (Mark 2 ‘24)
🛰 SPHEREx ‘24

💻 Currently working on on-chip beam-steering with photonic cavity lasers for hybrid free-space optical and orbital space debris LiDAR capability. 

Massive nerd about semiconductor technology, material science and nanophotonics. Nose deep in communications tech. 

📸 Also a commercial photographer 
@george.jli on TikTok

Always happy to chat and discuss interesting projects!
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University of Michigan Alum 〽️