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David Saykin

saykind at itp dot ac dot ru
https://saykind.github.io
Stanford, CA, , US
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Summary

Electrical Engineer at Apple working on capacitive touch sensing hardware. PhD in Physics from Stanford, bridging experimental physics and hardware engineering.

Education

  • Ph.D in Physics
    2025
    Stanford University
  • M.S. in Theoretical Physics
    2019
    Skoltech
    GPA: 4.6 / 5
  • B.S. in Physics and Applied Mathematics
    2017
    MIPT
    GPA: 4.9 / 5

Work Experience

  • Electrical Engineer
    2025 - present
    Apple Inc.
    Touch sensing hardware development and validation
    • Drove bring-up and validation of a new capacitive touch-sensor module through the engineering-validation build.
    • Stood up an offline validation station at the supplier site and authored its standard operating procedure.
    • Performed precision lab work: ultra-fine soldering and oscilloscope-based signal capture.
    • Built end-to-end tester software in MATLAB and Python, including an encrypted supplier-site tool and a factory display-driver tester interface.
    • Extended a hardware-control tool with command-line drivers for input devices, production equipment, and measurement instruments.
    • Processed calibration datasets and built visualization scripts for the daily build report and supplier-site Gauge R&R data.
  • Research Assistant
    2019 - 2025
    Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University
    Magneto-optical studies of quantum materials
    • Supervisor: Aharon Kapitulnik
    • Constructed an interferometer to detect polarization rotation with a sensitivity of 50 nanoradians.
    • Pioneered stress-enabled magneto-optical response detection and a novel method to detect in-plane magnetization via polarization rotation.
    • Discovered a spin-glass phase in nickelate superconductors.
    • Experimentally disproved speculated magnetic order in the kagome superconductor CsV3Sb5.
    • Studied unconventional superconducting pairing in UTe2.
  • Quantum engineer intern
    2022 - 2022
    Bleximo Corp.
    RF measurements in quantum computing processors
    • Supervisors: Chiara Pelletti and Xiaoyue Jin
    • Designed, built, stress-tested, and automated a qubit readout setup that acquires and calibrates vector network analyzer data.
  • Research Assistant
    2017 - 2019
    Landau Institute of Theoretical Physics
    • Supervisor: Igor S. Burmistrov
  • Research Intern
    2019 - 2019
    Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
    Anomalous elasticity of graphene
    • Supervisor: Alexander Mirlin
    • Developed a numerical Monte Carlo simulation scheme (C and CUDA) to compute critical exponents and elastic coefficients of 2D membranes such as free-standing graphene.
  • Teaching Assistant
    2018 - 2019
    Chair of physics and technology of nanostructures, MIPT
    • Supervisor: Vladimir V. Lebedev
  • Laboratory Assistant
    2018 - 2019
    Laboratory of Applied Computational Geophysics, MIPT
    • Supervisor: Vasily I. Golubev

Skills

Engineering

  • Laboratory electronics
  • Data acquisition and analysis
  • Design, development and debugging of experimental setups
  • Digital signal processing
  • Fiber/free-space optics
  • Lithography

Condensed--matter and Solid State Theory

  • Superconductivity
  • Quantum Transport
  • 2D materials
  • Quantum Field Theory methods

Programming/Computer Science

  • Python (NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, TensorFlow)
  • C/C++
  • Matlab
  • Wolfram Mathematica
  • Git, SVN
  • HTML, CSS
  • GNU/Linux shell
  • Parallel computing (Cuda, OMP, MPI)
  • Machine Learning
  • Monte Carlo simulations

Publications

  • Magnetoconductance of a ballistic p-n junction in a Weyl semimetal
    2017
    MIPT
    Bachelor's theses
    View Publication
  • Landau levels with magnetic tunneling in a Weyl semimetal and magnetoconductance of a ballistic p-n junction
    2018
    PHYSICAL REVIEW B
    We study the Landau levels of a Weyl semimetal with two adjacent Weyl nodes. We consider different orientations of magnetic field.
    View Publication
  • Absolute Poisson ratio of two–dimensional crystalline membranes
    2019
    Skoltech
    Master's theses
    View Publication
  • Absolute Poisson ratio and the bending rigidity exponent of a crystalline two-dimensional membrane
    2020
    ANNALS OF PHYSICS
    We compute the absolute Poisson ratio and the bending rigidity exponent of a free-standing two-dimensional crystalline membrane embedded into a space of large dimensionality.
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  • Phase diagram of a flexible two-dimensional material
    2020
    PHYSICAL REVIEW RESEARCH
    We demonstrate that a sufficiently strong short-range disorder stabilizes ripples in 2D memebranes.
    View Publication
  • Interplay between magnetism and superconductivity in UTe2
    2022
    PHYSICAL REVIEW B
    We present an extensive study of the magnetic-field-trained Kerr effect in UTe2, which unveils a unique critical state of pinned vorticies.
    View Publication
  • High Resolution Polar Kerr Effect Studies of CsV3Sb5
    2023
    PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
    We report high resolution polar Kerr effect measurements on CsV3Sb5 single crystals in search of signatures of spontaneous time-reversal symmetry breaking below the charge-order transition.
    View Publication

Presentations

  • Landau levels and magnetic tunneling in Weyl semimetals and magnetoconductance of ballistic junctions
    2018
    Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics
    Moscow, Russia
    We study the Landau levels of a Weyl semimetal with two adjacent Weyl nodes.
  • Magnetic tunneling in Weyl semimetals
    2018
    International conference to honor and memory of Alexei A. Abrikosov
    Chernogolovka, Russia
  • Magnetoconductance of ballistic junction in Weyl semimetal
    2018
    International Workshop «Localization, Interactions and Superconductivity»
    Chernogolovka, Russia
  • Landau levels with magnetic tunnelling in Weyl semimetals
    2018
    Summer School «Many body theory meets quantum information»
    Moscow, Russia
  • Anomalous elasticity of 2D materials beyond self--consistent approximation
    2020
    Colorado Convention Center
    Denver, Colorado
    We study elastic properties of two--dimensional crystalline materials, such as graphene.
  • High Resolution Polar Kerr Effect Studies of CsV3Sb5
    2023
    Caesars Forum
    Las Vegas, Nevada
    We report high resolution polar Kerr effect measurements on CsV3Sb5 single crystals in search of signatures of spontaneous time-reversal symmetry breaking below the charge-order transition.
  • Kerr Effect studies of CsV3Sb5 and ScV6Sn6
    2024
    Minneapolis Convention Center
    Minneapolis, MN
    We report novel results on the details of charge-density order in kagome superconductor CsV3Sb5.

Teaching

  • Mathematical methods in Physics (2018) [RU]
    2018
    Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
    Role: Course
  • Mathematical methods in Physics (2019) [RU]
    2019
    Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
    Role: Course
  • Wolfram Mathematica
    2019
    Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology
    Role: Course
  • Introduction to Solid State Physics (2021)
    2021
    Stanford University
    Role: Course
  • Introduction to Solid State Physics (2022)
    2022
    Stanford University
    Role: Course
  • Introduction to Solid State Physics (2023)
    2023
    Stanford University
    Role: Course
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