Research & Experience

• PhD - Texas A&M University, College Station, TX (GPA - 3.863) - May 2026

• MS - University of Colorado Boulder, CO (GPA - 3.67) - May 2017

• B.Tech - Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, India (GPA - 4) - September 2015

• Current - Optical Design Engineer - Kilby Labs, Texas Instruments, Santa Clara, CA

• 6 years - Research Assistant - Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

• 2.5 years - Software Engineer II - Cadence Design Systems, San Jose, CA

• 1.5 years - Research Assistant - Teledyne LeCroy Signal Integrity Lab, Longmont, CO

• 1 year - Design project student - National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Boulder, CO

• Internships

  • Keysight Labs, Santa Clara, CA

  • Lumerical Operations, San Jose, CA

  • Raytheon Technologies (Remote)

  • Cadence Design Systems, San Jose, CA

• Electrical and Photonics design software

  • HFSS, Lumerical, Synopsys TCAD, RSOFT, Cadence Sigrity, Keysight ADS, Altium designer, Sonnet

• Electrical and Photonics measurement

  • High frequency network analyzers, AWG, and oscilloscopes, RF probe calibration and measurements (S-parameters, noise, and linearity), Optical measurements (Fiber to chip vertical and edge coupling, material characterization, loss and delay measurements), Measurements using tunable laser source

• Photonic layout 

  • Taped out using AMF PDK and experience in AIM and imec PDKs. Experience in using Luceda IPKISS, Pyxis, Tanner, KLayout

• Coding and automation

  • Python, MATLAB, C++, Arduino, External DAC/ADC with SPI, Embedded C

• Coding tools and libraries

  • Jupyter, Google collab, Tensorflow, PyTorch, Scikit, Keras, Pandas, Numpy

• Documentation and editing

  • Microsoft office, Adobe suite

• High speed linear silicon photonic Mach-Zehnder Modulator for analog RF links supporting mm-wave 5G bands

• Reconfigurable photonic bandpass filters for mm-wave 5G bands

• Dual-Polarization silicon photonic IQ transmitter and coherent receiver supporting 200Gbps per lane

• Thin-Film Lithium Nioabte Mach-Zehnder modulators to support 800Gbps per lane

• Silicon photonic ring modulators for wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) transmitters to support 800Gbps per wavelength

Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications:

• Y. -L. Luo, D. Paladugu, C. Madsen, K. Entesari and S. Palermo, "A 15–25-GHz Dual-Differential Photonic Front-End With Silicon Traveling-Wave Mach–Zehnder Modulator and 22-nm CMOS Driver," in IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 74, no. 3, pp. 2843-2854, March 2026, doi: 10.1109/TMTT.2025.3645603. (Co-first author)

• Y. -L. Luo, D. Paladugu, R. Rady, C. Madsen, K. Entesari and S. Palermo, "A 16–32 GHz RF Photonic Front-End With 22 nm CMOS Driver and Silicon Travelling-Wave Mach-Zehnder Modulator," in Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 42, no. 23, pp. 8127-8136, Dec.1, 2024, doi: 10.1109/JLT.2024.3427128. (Co-first author)

• K. Entesari, S. Palermo. C. K. Madsen, D. Paladugu, Y.-L. Luo, H. Yu, R. Rady, "Microwave Silicon Photonics Drivers/Mach–Zehnder Modulators for Radio-Over-Fiber Links," in IEEE Microwave Magazine, doi: 10.1109/MMM.2026.3683640.

• J. Lee, R. Shenoy, A. Deo, S. Yi, D. Gao, D. Qiao. M. Xu, S. Asapu, Z. Rong, D. Nathan, Y. Hei, D. Paladugu, J. -G. Zheng, J. J. Yang, R. S. Williams, Q. Wu and Y. Chen, HfZrO-based synaptic resistor circuit for a Super-Turing intelligent system. Sci.Adv.11, eadr2082(2025). DOI:10.1126/sciadv.adr2082

• E. Bogatin, B. Hargin, D. Paladugu, D. DeGroot, A. Koul, S. Baek, and M. Sapozhnikov, "New characterization technique for glass-weave skew," Signal Integrity Journal, Mar. 2017 [online].

Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings:

• Y. -L. Luo, D. Paladugu, C. Madsen, K. Entesari and S. Palermo, "A 22nm CMOS 15-25GHz Dual-Differential Driver for RF Silicon Photonic Front-End," 2025 IEEE/MTT-S International Microwave Symposium - IMS 2025, San Francisco, CA, USA, 2025, pp. 41- 44, doi: 10.1109/IMS40360.2025.11103878.

• Y.-L. Luo, D. Paladugu, C. Madsen, K. Entesari and S. Palermo, "A 15-25 GHz RF Photonic Front-End with 22nm CMOS Dual-Differential Driver and Silicon Traveling-Wave Mach-Zehnder Modulator," 2025 Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC), San Francisco, CA.

• Y. -L. Luo, D. Paladugu, R. Rady, K. Entesari and S. Palermo, "A 16-32GHz RF Silicon Photonic Receiver with 22nm FD-SOI CMOS Driver," 2023 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC), Orlando, FL, USA, 2023, pp. 1-2, doi: 10.1109/IPC57732.2023.10360718.

• I. Kim, H. Kang, R. Liu, A. Kumar, Y. Yuan, D. Paladugu, H. Lee, Z. Huang, C. Hong, M. Fiorentino, R. Beausoleil and S. Palermo, "A 100Gb/s 1.32pJ/b PAM4 Optical Receiver with Digital CDR in 28nm CMOS," 2025 IEEE European Solid-State Electronics Research Conference (ESSERC), Munich, Germany, 2025, pp. 105-108, doi: 10.1109/ESSERC66193.2025.11214097.

• I. Kim, Y. Yuan, R. Liu, H. Kang, A. Kumar, Y. Peng, D. Paladugu, H. Lee, Z. Huang, C. Hong, M. Fiorentino, R. Beausoleil and S. Palermo, "A 100-Gb/s PAM-4 Optical Receiver Integrated with All-Silicon Microring Avalanche Photodiode," 2025 Optical Interconnects and Packaging Conference (OIP), Fort Collins, CO, USA, 2025, pp. 1-2, doi: 10.1109/OIP65843.2025.11081658.

• R. C. Bollimuntha, M. J. Piket-May, E. Bogatin, D. Paladugu, "An Efficient Method for Glass Weave Skew Simulations," Electronic Design Innovation Conference, Sept. 2017.

• R. C. Bollimuntha, D. Paladugu, R. Saha, M. J. Piket-May, A. Z. Elsherbeni, and M. F. Hadi, “Fiber Glass-Weave Skew Analysis using the Finite-Difference Time-Domain,” URSI, Boulder, January 2017.

• A. Asok, Pavithra L, K. Menon, P. D. Teja and D. Kumaresan, "Portable infrared carbon dioxide detector for monitoring vehicular emissions," 2015 International Conference on Industrial Instrumentation and Control (ICIC), Pune, 2015, pp. 724-729, doi: 10.1109/IIC.2015.7150837.

• Phot1x: Silicon Photonics Design, Fabrication and Data Analysis, University of British Columbia (edX), April 2018

• President - ECE Graduate Student Association, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

• Senator - Graduate and Profession Student Government, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

• Vice President of Professional Development - ECE Graduate Student Association, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

• Panel member - The Honor Council, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

• Photographer and event planner - Desi Aggies, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

• Secretary - Brazos Valley Astronomy Club, Bryan, TX

• Event organizer - IEEE Young Professionals, Santa Clara Valley Chapter, CA

• Secretary - Cadence AHgorithms Toastmasters club, San Jose, CA

• Association of Former Students Southerland Leadership Scholarship

• Tina Watkins Scholarship 

• International Education Fee Scholarship 

• Shibata International Memorial Scholarship