Adam Exley

Electrical Engineer
RF & Mixed-Signal Hardware Designer

M.S. Electrical Engineering

Ohio State University

2024 - 2025

GPA: 4.0/4.0

B.S. Electrical Engineering

Ohio State University

2020 - 2024

GPA: 4.0/4.0

Industry Experience

* Designates Internship

R&D Engineer II, Hardware Design

Jul '25 - Present

Keysight Technologies

R&D Hardware Design*

Nov '23 - Aug '24

Keysight Technologies

  • Designed active high-impedance to50Ωamplifying adapter for oscilloscope probes, utilizing an ASIC and leveraging existing designs
  • Developed firmware for aforementioned design, allowing control via Keysight's AutoProbe interface
  • Characterized prototype, developing factory and user-facing calibration procedures

NPI Engineering*

May - Aug '23

Keysight Technologies

  • Optimized test procedures for PXI synchronization modules, resulting in a 2.5× improvement in unmanned test time
  • Analyzed multi-year test backlog to determine failure root-cause in high complexity assemblies

Product Development*

May - Aug '22

Lake Shore Cryotronics

  • Designed and evaluated high-impedance (>10GΩ) ultra-low-noise (0.8nVHz) JFET amplifiers for use as analog measurement frontends
  • Fabricated and used isolated preamplifiers to characterize sensitive analog systems
  • Automated instrument characterization using Python

Academic Work Experience

Graduate Teaching Associate

2024 - 2025

OSU Dept. Engineering Education
Fundamentals of Engineering for Honors

  • Instructed 2 sections of 36 students per semester
  • Led rapid redesign of robot controller for academic use

Undergrad Teaching Assistant

2022 - 2024

OSU Dept. Engineering Education
Fundamentals of Engineering for Honors

  • Engaged with students in ~6 hours of instruction per week
  • Graded assignments and provided feedback to students
  • Developed course content and materials for ~200 students per semester

Research Assistant

2021 - 2024

CDME @ OSU

AIMS Lab @
Center for Design and Manufacturing Excellence,
Ohio State University
  • Leveraged GPU acceleration (NVIDIA CUDA C++) to develop rapid simulation backend for spray manufacturing processes
  • Utilized ROS 2 to interface with Yaskawa Motoman industrial robots
  • Employed computer and machine vision algorithms for pose estimation, object detection, and remote measurement

Skills

Discrete Design

Experience with schematic capture, PCB layout, prototyping and revision of various hardware designs

Siemens Xpedition
Altium Designer
KiCAD

Discrete Electrical Simulation

Analog simulation of critical subcircuits and physical designs before or during prototyping

Keysight ADS
LTSpice
PSpice

Integrated Design

Experience in 0.18μm, 45nm CMOS design.
RRI constant-gm Opamp design, 28Gb/s PAM-4 SERDES system

Cadence Virtuoso
XSchem
NGSpice

Electrical Test & Measurement

Experienced in measurement design, execution, and analysis for a variety of electrical systems based on requirements (low-noise, high-speed, etc)

Oscilloscope
VNA
Spec. Analyzer
AWG
SCPI

Programming Skills

Embedded

Low-level programming of microcontrollers and peripheral circuits

Embedded C
STM32
Arduino

Parallel, GPU-Accelerated

Experience with parallelized programming techniques and use of hardware acceleration for high-performance applications

CUDA C++
OptiX

High-Level Automation/Scripting

Highly experienced with automated testing, characterization, and data analysis

Python
MATLAB
SCPI

Machine Learning

Use of standard classification, regression, and reinforcement learning techniques for data analysis and control

Python
SciPy

Deep Learning

Training and deployment of general-purpose neural networks and basic development of custom architectures

Python
Tensorflow
PyTorch

Classes Taken

A selection of relevant coursework

Computational EM II

Theory & implementation of MoM and FEM methods for quasi-static problems

Computational EM I

Theory & implementation of FDTD and FETD methods including boundary conditions

RF Systems

Design & analysis of end-to-end RF systems including modulation, noise, and link budgets

Antennas

Design and theory of antennas, including phased arrays

Passive Microwave Design

RF filters, couplers, and other passive structures

Active Microwave Design

(Primarily discrete) RF amplifiers and oscillators

High Speed I/O Design

SERDES systems with equalization

Data Converters

Design and theory of ADCs and DACs

Analog IC Design II

OTA design and compensation (rail-to-rail and multi-stage)

Analog IC Design I

Integrated fundamentals, basic & advanced current mirrors

Mixed-Signal VLSI

Advanced Digital Design

Use of HDLs to design FPGA and ASIC systems

IC Testing

Machine Learning

Theory and implementation of various ML models

Feedback Control