Education, experience & skills

• GPA: 3.5
• Thesis: "Subwavelength-Engineered Silicon Photonic Moiré Microring Resonators for Robust Hardware Security and Quantum Photonic Processing"
• Relevant coursework: Advanced Kinematics & Control, Modern Control, Power System Analysis

• GPA: 3.88
• Relevant coursework: Optoelectronics, VLSI Design, Embedded Operating Systems, Computer Architecture and Organization, Microprocessors, Object Oriented Programming, Data Structures and Algorithms, Digital Logic Design, Digital Electronics, Electronic Motor Control

• Engineered a novel microring resonator for use as a Physical Unclonable Function, utilized Tidy3D for electromagnetic simulation & KLayout for GDSII design.
• Sent for fabrication with Applied Nanotools NanoSOI Multi-Project Wafer service on 220nm SOI process.

• Designed a novel optical ring resonator for enhanced coupling performance & all-optical logic gates (NOT, NAND, NOR), operating at the center of the optical C-band range (1550nm).
• Utilized Flexcompute’s Tidy3D Python library for device geometry specification and electromagnetic simulation, and KLayout for GDSII layout editing for fabrication on 220nm Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) process.

• Created an alarm system for dredging vehicles using programmable logic controller (PLC) technology, to warn of hazardous/restricted zones not immediately visible by dredging vehicle operators.
• Utilized microcontroller programming skills to create a robust system, complete with GUI for user configuration.

David Zambrano, Farhan Bin Tarik. "Design and Fabrication of a Subwavelength-engineered Silicon Photonic Moiré Ring Resonator" CLEO, 2026

Darian Brokaw, David Zambrano, Farhan Bin Tarik. "Scalable all-optical logic gates using cascadable silicon photonic resonator inverters" SPIE Photonics West, 2026

Felipe Gonzalez, David Zambrano, Farhan Bin Tarik. "Deeply sub-diffractive silicon photonic ring resonator for localized field enhancement in integrated photonics" SPIE Photonics West, 2026

Leadership: Phoenix Autonomy Electrical Lead [Jan 2026 – Present], Phoenix Autonomy Battery Lead [Aug 2025 – Dec 2026], Poly Concert Band Vice Captain [Aug 2024 – Present], Violet Voices Choir Bass Section Lead [Aug 2024 – May 2025], Presidential Ambassador [Jan 2023 – May 2025].

Awards: 1st Place Research Presentation – Second Annual Poly Research Day, 1st Place Paper Presentation – Second Annual Student Research Symposium IEEE Student Branch, IEEE-HKN Honor Society Member, President’s & Provost’s List, Saddle Creek Logistics Scholar, Florida Bright Futures Academic Scholar.