Jenny Smith

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Staff Engineer

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Education

Undergraduate

Bachelor of Science in Physics from Harvey Mudd College

Graduate

PhD in Physics from the University of California, Santa Barbara

Languages

Python, C++, VHDL

MATLAB, TCL

Skills

FPGA SoC devices

Cryogenic Electronics

Microwave Engineering

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Experience

Staff Engineer

September 2024 to Present: SLAC TID-ID ES

Cryogenics

Experience working with systems below 4K

Firmware

Developing high-performance RFSoC-based instrumentation

Superconducting Devices

Working with superconducting devices and developing supporting technology

Microwave Design

Using RF-integrated, and microwave components for high-bandwidth signal processing

Research

Click here to see a recording of Jenny's PhD thesis defense where she explains her research to a general audiance.

Graduate Research

Third Generation Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detector Readout (MKIDGen3)

Graduate Research

A High-Throughput Oversampled Polyphase Filter Bank Using Vivado HLS and PYNQ on a RFSoC

Graduate Research

MKID Exoplanet Camera

Graduate Research

Highly-Multiplexed Superconducting Detector Readout: Approachable High-Speed FPGA Design

Graduate Research

Improved Flexible Coaxial Ribbon Cable For High-Density Superconducting Arrays

Graduate Research

Superconducting Flexible Coaxial Ribbon Cable For High-Density Superconducting Device Arrays

Outreach

Summer Institute in Math and Science

Instructor

School for Scientific Thought

Instructor

UCSB Women in Physics

Senior Officer

Summer Institute in Math and Science

Students having fun with circular motion.

School for Scientific Thought

Proud students showing off their lander in preperation for the egg-drop challenge.

UCSB Women in Physics

WiP members creating media to decorate the conference room for the annual Women in Physics Brunch.

Fun Stuff

Dragon Fruit

Doggo

Planes

Contact Jenny

If you have an interesting opportunity in the San Francisco Bay Area, you can reach me using any of the means below!

GitHub

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