http://danielvickery.name/ email: drv@alum.mit.edu
phone: (+852).9610.8265
CV IN A NUTSHELL
I start with good ideas and develop them into real, useful, elegant systems. I enjoy creatively working out the details and the infrastructure of a project, to take it from concept to reality. My experience includes research, development, and teaching with hardware, software, logistics, and beyond.
EDUCATION
M.Eng. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . September 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
GPA: 5.0/5.0
S.B. Electrical Science and Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . June 2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA U.S.A.
GPA: 4.8/5.0
Relevant Coursework : Solid-State Circuits; Feedback Systems; Applied Electromagnetics; Power Electronics;
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs; Computation Structures; High-Speed Communication
Circuits; RF Circuits and Systems; Low-Power Analog VLSI; Bioelectronics; Communication, Control, and
Signal Processing.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Electrical Engineering Lead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . August 2014-Present
Quantum Force Engineering Limited, Hong Kong SAR, China
Design and construction of 7kW/4kWh Lithium-Ion Battery Pack.
For use in electric motorcycle application. Responsible for all aspects of design, including: system architecture, cell and component selection, BMS specification, schematic design/capture, PCB layout, authorship and execution of complete laboratory testing procedures.
Senior Engineer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 2013-August 2014
One Earth Group Limited, Hong Kong SAR, China
Design and manufacture of solar cooking system.
Optical, thermal, and electrical systems design and simulation. Optical and thermal characterization of materials. Design and prototyping of solar thermoelectric generator. Design and manufacture of solar optimized cookware. Overseas manufacturing including CM selection, engineering, QA/QC, and logistics. E-Commerce website design and maintainence. Authorship of feasibility studies, design briefs, and technical specifications. Field user research. Rapid prototyping. Successful Kickstarter campaign.
Hardware Design Engineer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . September 2011-October 2012
Oracle America Inc., Burlington, MA, U.S.A.
Design of embedded power systems for rack-mount x86-architecture servers.
Complete design and implementation of power distribution networks, multi-phase buck converters, charge pumps, and linear regulators. Component selection, control loop design, schematic design/capture, PCB layout, overseas fabrication and manufacturing. Full laboratory testing and validation. Design reviews of motherboards and all auxiliary boards.
Energy Systems Intern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . January 2009
Makani Power, Alameda, CA, U.S.A.
Design and prototyping of a high voltage, high power, lightweight dc-dc converter.
Topology selection, magnetics design, PCB layout, low-power prototyping.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Graduate Research Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . June 2010-August 2011
M.I.T. Research Laboratory of Electronics
Advisor: Prof. Steven Leeb.
Design and construction of a retrofit 60 Hz current sensor for power monitoring at the circuit breaker.
Design of analog/digital signal processing chain for AM signal with extremely low modulation depth. Noise analysis. Magnetics modeling. Low-power circuit design.
Undergraduate Research Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .February 2009-June 2010
M.I.T. Research Laboratory of Electronics
Advisor: Prof. Steven Leeb
Development of retrofit capacitive occupancy sensors for demand-side power management in lighting systems.
Design and construction of ballasts for fluorescent and LEDbased lamps. Design and implementation of a feedforward compensation scheme for bulb noise cancellation in a capacitive sensor based on a fluorescent lamp.
Undergraduate Research Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . June 2007-August 2008
MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Advisors: Dr. Jonathan Bachrach, Dr. Nikolaus Correll
Implementation of distributed computing algorithms and languages on experimental hardware platforms including sensor networks, modular robots, and swarm robots.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Head Teaching Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . January 2011-May 2011
M.I.T. 6.115 - Microcomputer Project Laboratory
Instruction, laboratory tutoring, grading, and course administration.
Topics included: embedded system design, computer architecture, software and development tools, peripheral components, communication schemes, signal processing techniques, closed-loop digital feedback control, modelling of electromechanical systems.
Head Teaching Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . September 2008-December 2010
M.I.T. 6.131 - Power Electronics Laboratory
Instruction, laboratory tutoring, design reviews, and course administration.
Topics included: power converter topology and operation, component selection, circuit design, laboratory skills. Step-up, step-down, and flyback converters. Motor drives.
Homework Grader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . February 2010-May 2010
M.I.T. 6.302 - Feedback Systems
Graded all weekly problem sets. Revised solution guides.
Topics included: time/frequency domain performance measures, stability, nyquist criterion, root locus method, compensation techniques, applications.
CLASSWORK
Ultra-Low Power EKG Amplifier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fall 2010
M.I.T. 6.376 - Ultra-Low Power Bioelectronics
Schematic design and layout of a fully-integrated EKG preamplifier circuit. Operates at 9.8
µ W of quiescent power draw, with 40dB gain, 100dB CMRR, and only 9.2
µ V RMS output voltage noise referred-to-input. Designed with AMI 0.5 micron technology.
Sigma-Delta Modulated Fractional-N Synthesizer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Spring 2010
M.I.T. 6.776 - High Speed Communication Circuits
Design and construction of a circuit for frequency systhesis. Phase-locked loop design. Noise analysis.

WRITINGS
1. Al-Thaddeus Avestruz, John J. Cooley, Daniel R. Vickery, Steven B. Leeb.
Dimmable Solid-State Lighting Ballast with Integral Capacitive Occupancy Sensor . IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics,
Spec. Issue on Modern Ballast Technology, April 2012.
2. Daniel Vickery.
A Retrofit Current Sensor for Non-Intrusive Power Monitoring at the Circuit Breaker .
Masters thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, September 2011.
3. John J. Cooley, Daniel Vickery, Al-Thaddeus Avestruz, Zachary Clifford, and Steven B. Leeb.
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Retrofit 60 Hz Current Sensor for Power Monitoring at the Circuit Breaker Panel . The 2010 IEEE
12th Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL ’10).
4. John J. Cooley, Daniel Vickery, Al-Thaddeus Avestruz, Amy Englehart, James Paris, and Steven B.
Leeb.
Solid-State Lamp with Integral Occupancy Sensor . The Twenty-Fifth Annual IEEE Applied
Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC ’10).
5. Zach Clifford, John J. Cooley, Al-Thaddeus Avestruz, Zachary Remscrim, Daniel Vickery, and Steven
B. Leeb.
A Retrofit 60 Hz Current Sensor for Non-intrusive Power Monitoring at the Circuit Breaker .
The Twenty-Fifth Annual IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC ’10).
6. Jacob Beal, Jonathan Bachrach, Dan Vickery, and Mark Tobenkin.
Fast Self-stabilization for Gradients . Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor
Systems (DCOSS ’09).
7. Nikolaus Correll, Jonathan Bachrach, Daniel Vickery, and Danielle Rus.
Ad-hoc Wireless Metwork
Coverage with Networked Robots that Cannot Localize . Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International
Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA ’09).
8. Jacob Beal, Jonathan Bachrach, Dan Vickery, and Mark Tobenkin.
Fast self-healing gradients . Proceedings of the 2008 ACM symposium on Applied computing (SAC ’08).
AWARDS
Robert M. Fano Undergraduate Research Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 2010 for “Fluorescent Lamp with Integral Occupancy Sensor”
Best Paper Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . March 2008
Artificial Intelligence & Agents Theme, ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
SKILLS
Equipment Vector Network Analyzer, Oscilloscope, Professional A/V Equipment.
Programming C, Python, MATLAB, Mathematica. HTML/CSS.
Software Linux/Mac/Windows. SPICE. PCB and VLSI design tools.
Languages Native English, Advanced Spanish, Beginner Mandarin and Cantonese Chinese.