Benjamin is a systems and optical designer with illumiSonics, and an active researcher and PhD candidate at the University of Waterloo. Benjamin has been a foundational member of the illumisonics team, since completing his BEng at the University of Guelph in 2020. During this time, Benjamin has developed the foundational principles of PARS technology in his PhD and is a co-inventor of the PARS technique used by illumiSonics. He continues to play a key role in developing and prototyping the PARS technology, contributing expertise in optics, signals, and image processing, hardware-software integration.