Daryl Achilles

Daryl Achilles assists the Electrical & Computer Technologies Group in patent prosecution in the areas of lasers, optical devices, software, and electronics.

Daryl was previously a Science Advisor at Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi L.L.P. where he assisted attorneys with all technical matters that arise in complex patent litigation. He was involved in evaluating patent infringement and validity for a wide-range of technologies, including telecommunications hardware, optics, electronics, and software.

Prior to that, Daryl was a Research Associate at MagiQ Technologies, a Boston company focusing on commercializing and patenting novel fiber-optical technologies. Daryl’s research focused on quantum optical phenomena in fiber optics and waveguide devices.

While a graduate student at the University of Oxford, Daryl performed research in the area of atomic and laser physics. His particular field of expertise is quantum information and quantum optics. He has experience working with ultrafast laser systems, nonlinear optics, acousto-optical devices, waveguides, and light detection at the single photon level. His research focused on the design and implementation of a novel photon-number-resolving detector that was used to characterize nonclassical states of light.

As an undergraduate at the University of Illinois, Daryl performed research in the area of polarization optics and interferometry. He specifically investigated the nature of geometric phases in different polarization states of light. He also performed research in the area of high energy particle physics where he assisted in software and hardware upgrades at the CDF detector at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, IL. 

Boston Patent Law Association

Boston Bar Association

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, B.S., Physics

University of Oxford, Ph.D., Physics

Suffolk University Law School, J.D., 2015 Candidate