My name is Dar Dahlen, I'm a physicist/programmer.
Current work is at CalTech on the NEO Surveyor space telescope, looking for dangerous asteroids.
Before this I worked at SpaceX for 8 or 9 months on Starlink, doing algorithm development.
From 2018 to 2021 I worked at Quantum Benchmark where I was the lead developer of compilation tools for state of the art quantum computers.
Before this I worked more directly with Quantum Computing hardware:
- Superconducting Quantum Chips - 2016-2018 - full stack development from hardware/FPGA interfaces up to Python, along with hardware development.
Previously, I used to primarily work in optics, usually big lasers:
- Kilowatt IR Lasers - 2013-2014
- ML work with biological data - 2014-2015
- Petawatt femto-second lasers - 2015-2016
This is my personal website where I may post personal projects, thoughts, or whatever else comes to mind, and is not representative of my employers (past or present).