Bradford Taft

Company: MiNDERA

Position: Director of Research and Development

Company: Oracle

Position: Director of Development

Term in Group: 1999-2003, PhD

Aravind graduated from the University of Waterloo with a B.A.Sc. in Nanotechnology Engineering and completed his masters’ degree looking at utilizing computational techniques and machine learning to assist in the discovery of new materials for light-emitting devices.

Company: D&D Integrative Care

Position: Software Developer

Data Consultant Validere.com

Company: RBC

Position: Senior Manager, Strategy

Term in Group: 2013-2017, PhD

Favourite Achievement: I’m very proud to be one of the lab’s pioneers in the small bandgap CQD research that resulted in the QD Solar Inc and CQD-silicon integration projects. One of the early papers in the field is an APL paper I co-authored, “Single-step colloidal quantum dot films for infrared solar harvesting,” that paved the way for fabricating efficient small bandgap thin films.

Company: STMicroelectronics

Position: QD R&D Manager

Term in Group: 2007-2010, Postdoctoral Fellow

Company: Angstrom Engineering

Position: Test and Process Specialist

Term in Group: 2010-2015, PhD

Company: SunPower Corporation

Position: Engineering Manager – New Materials and Architectures

Term in Group: 2008-2009, Postdoctoral Fellow

Company: Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO)

Position: Director – Transmission Planning

Term in Group: 2002-2004, MASc