Sam Mandegaran

Sam Mandegaran has had a long and varied career. In 2005, they began as a Senior Design Engineer at Raytheon. Three years later, they took a role as a Film Crew member. In 2008, they began as a Research Engineer at the University of Southern California, where they designed RF and analog chips and high-speed digital PCBs. In 2015, they became the Chief Engineer at Abtum Inc., where they worked on RF products to improve TX to RX isolation. In 2019, they took on roles as a Lead Scientist at Warner Bros. Entertainment and a Consultant/Contractor at Qorvo, Inc. Sam is currently a Senior Manager of Technology at Atmosic Technologies.

Sam Mandegaran holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering/Economics from Caltech, a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Caltech, a Master of Fine Arts in Film and TV Production (writing/directing) from the University of Southern California, and a Graduate Program in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University. In addition, they hold a TensorFlow (Google's AI Library) Developer Certificate from Google, obtained in April 2021.