Electrical Engineer

Andrew is an Electrical Engineer specializing in detectors, multi-junction solar cells, and semiconductor defect characterization. In the Astronomical Instrumentation Team, Andrew handles electrical design and testing of instrument control and acquisition systems. 

Background

• Part of the MIT Kavli Institute since 2014
• M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The Ohio State University, 2009
• B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The Ohio State University, 2005

Personal

In his spare time, Drew enjoys hiking in various locations around New England and beyond. He also pretends to like running more than he actually does, and to like video games and good Scotch far less than he actually does.

True Story: Drew once received career counseling from a rock

Publications:

G. Fűrész; R. Simcoe; S. I. Barnes; L. A. Buchhave; M. Egan; R. Foster; T. Hellickson; A. Malonis; D. Phillips; S. Shectman; R. Walsworth; J. Winn; D. Woods, “WISDOM: the WIYN spectrograph for Doppler monitoring: a NASA-NSF concept for an extreme precision radial velocity instrument in support of TESS,” Proc. SPIE 9908, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VI, 990814 (2016);

G. Prigozhin; K. Gendreau; J. P. Doty; R. Foster; R. Remillard; A. Malonis; B. LaMarr; M. Vezie; M. Egan; J. Villasenor; Zaven Arzoumanian; W. Baumgartner; F. Scholze; C. Laubis; M. Krumrey; A. Huber, “NICER instrument detector subsystem: description and performance,” Proc. SPIE 9905, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 99051I (2016)

A. Arehart; A. Malonis; C. Poblenz; Y. Pei; J. Speck; U. Mishra; S. Ringel, “Next generation defect characterization in nitride HEMTs,” Phys. Status Solidi C, Vol. 8, pp 2242-2244 (2011)

Patents:

“High-Efficiency Solar-Cell Arrays with Integrated Electronics and Methods for Forming Them” Inventors:  J. Hennessy, A. Pitera, A. Malonis, E. A. Fitzgerald, S.A. Ringel