Nicky He

Operations Associate

San Francisco, California, United States3 yrs 10 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Led operations at a Y Combinator startup.
Developed advanced experimental physics projects.
Doubled club membership through effective leadership.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Research and Operations leader in the Education and Scientific Research sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

LeadershipProject ManagementTutoringScientific ResearchMachine LearningMachining

Other Skills

Social EntrepreneurshipCommunication3D PrintingSolderingComputer-Aided Design (CAD)Printed Circuit Board (PCB) DesignMicrocontrollersVery-Large-Scale Integration (VLSI)Cadence VirtuosoSignal ProcessingJavaC (Programming Language)MySQLPython (Programming Language)MATLAB

Experience

3 yrs 10 mos

Total Experience

9 mos

Average Tenure

11 mos

Current Experience

Dedalus labs

Operations+

Jul 2025 – Present · 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · On-site

Fusion position, Head of
Operations: resolve risks before escalation
Human Resources: hiring, work trials, contracts, payroll, compensations, negotiations
Finance: procurement, banking, accounting, invoicing, cashflow
Additional Roles
Legal: liaison with external counsel, internal legal ops, contracts, equity, immigration, compliance, insurance
Executive Assistant: CEO inbox, communications, task prioritization
QA: intense product testing, user journey designer
Growth: Hacker house program lead, developer relations, Chinese social media management, event hosting
Partnerships: design partner with Ramp, company program collaborations manager

Social EntrepreneurshipLeadershipProject ManagementCommunication

Princeton university

Teach

Aug 2024 – Jul 2025 · 11 mos · Princeton, NJ · On-site

Maintain and develop experimental physics experiments for advanced undergraduate physics lab course.

Cern

Research

Aug 2024 – Jul 2025 · 11 mos · Hybrid

Work with a team of high-energy physicists focused on designing and enhancing experiments for the Future Circular Collider. Primarily aims to increase the precision of experiments and improve data readouts for muon collisions.

Princeton university department of physics

4 roles

Tutor

Feb 2024 – May 2024 · 3 mos · On-site

- Teach experimental methods to students in the Experimental Physics course offered by the Physics Department.

Tutoring

Research

Promoted

Sep 2023 – Apr 2024 · 7 mos · On-site

Animal Gait Studies
Conducted a comprehensive research on the walking behaviors of animals and utilized study results to simulate gait patterns with a Dynamixel six-legged robot.
Updated and fixed a deep neural network model that specialized in analyzing massive amount of data for animal behavioral studies.

Scientific Research3D PrintingMachine Learning

Research

Feb 2023 – Jul 2023 · 5 mos · On-site

Calibration System for Cosmic Microwave Background Detectors
Developed a system for efficient CMB detector array calibration, and authored over 20 pages of design details, limiting factors, and testing procedures.
Built a functional prototype, and validated its credibility through multiple replication experiments.
Improved performance and installation convenience through numerous versions of system designs, while experimenting with various materials for increased optimization.

Scientific Research

Research

Jun 2022 – Jan 2023 · 7 mos · On-site

Low Temperature Search for Axion Dark Matter
Operated machine shop equipment to manufacture and install precise metal components for experiment, including frames for superconducting magnetic coils.
Self-studied printed circuit board designing to create a complicated board design for a superconducting quantum interference device in Altium Designer.
Practiced soldering skills, and massive electronic wiring for detectors inside cryostat. Drew multiple design variations of testing cryostat in CAD for different experiment setups.

Tutoring

Colonial club of princeton

2 roles

President

Dec 2022 – Feb 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos · On-site

Directed a team of 12 officers in various roles through training and task delegation, and managed the seamless operations of a 200+ member club. Doubled club membership through a year of engaging work.
Acquired high skill level in project management, event planning, scheduling, advertising, recruitment & marketing.

Scientific ResearchMachiningSolderingComputer-Aided Design (CAD)3D Printing