01 Zurich
Engineering operations for nanolithography instruments
Closer to how teams, product decisions, and instrument delivery fit together.
Heidelberg Instruments Nano
Kartik Buddha
Places I've worked and studied.
Singapore, Lyon, Lausanne, Princeton, Fribourg, Zurich, and Copenhagen. Different settings, different problems, and a steady pull toward systems that have to work in the real world.
Path
The route so far.
Zurich / Copenhagen / Fribourg / Princeton / Lausanne / Lyon / Singapore
02 Copenhagen
Technical recruiting support
A small consulting role helping ATLANT 3D with hiring around software and research-tool work.
ATLANT 3D
03 Zurich
Software leadership for instrument products
Leading software work for nanolithography tools and the product systems around them.
Heidelberg Instruments Nano
04 Zurich
Online learning and marketplace systems
Startup work beside the main track: product, marketplace, and learning workflows.
Mooctors
05 Zurich
Product and systems engineering
Hands-on product work across instruments, users, constraints, and careful releases.
Heidelberg Instruments Nano
06 Fribourg
Computer vision and mobile augmented reality
A short internship in Fribourg before the move into scientific instruments.
Vidinoti
07 Princeton, NJ
Machine learning for medical microscopy
Research work with sparse coding and microscopic image data.
NEC Laboratories America
08 Lausanne
Signals, images, and interfaces
Graduate work that kept theory close to implementation.
EPFL
09 Lyon
3D graphics and motion segmentation
A summer in Lyon working with time-varying meshes.
LIRIS
10 Singapore
X-ray CT image processing
Early applied image work for inspection problems.
SIMTech
11 Singapore
Computer engineering and mathematics
Where the engineering base was built.
Nanyang Technological University