Welcome to Fromthesky Research Labs

At Fromthesky Research Labs, we are passionate about turning complex challenges into elegant solutions. Whether you need a trusted partner to help build a great product or want access to cutting-edge research developed in-house, we are here for you.

We bring deep expertise across artificial intelligence, semiconductor manufacturing, and photonics — combining rigorous scientific research with real-world engineering experience. Our broad knowledge base means we can add genuine value across a wide range of industries and technical domains.

We work closely with our clients to understand their goals and deliver outstanding results, from early concept all the way to deployment.

Welcome — we look forward to working with you.

About The Founder

Meet the founder of Fromthesky Research Labs.

Hi, I'm Burc Gokden: engineer, researcher, and problem solver.

As the founder of Fromthesky Research Labs, I partner with clients to tackle their toughest engineering challenges across artificial intelligence, semiconductor manufacturing, and photonics. I hold a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Northwestern University and completed my postdoctoral research at Harvard in the Capasso group. Over my career, I’ve developed 10nm and beyond process technologies at Intel, led pathfinding machine learning work in the Calibre group at Siemens Digital Industries, and invented the Large Language Model from Power Law Decoder Representations (PLDR-LLM) — an open-source architecture that advances the interpretability of modern LLMs.

My research has been cited over 1,000 times, and my open-source models and code are freely available on Hugging Face and GitHub. I bring together scientific depth, hands-on engineering craft, and a genuine love for the work — so you get a partner who cares about your success as much as you do.

Whether you need generative AI expertise, semiconductor process know-how, or photonic device design — I combine academic rigor with real industry experience to deliver solutions that work.

Our Expertise & Research Interests

From frontier AI research to advanced semiconductor and photonic devices — deep expertise across the fields that matter most.

Frontier AI Research

Inventor of PLDR-LLM — a decoder-only transformer architecture leveraging power law decay rate (PLDR) attention for efficient long-context reasoning and emergent behavior at self-organized criticality. Models and code are open-source and available on Hugging Face and GitHub.

Agentic AI Applications

Design and deployment of multi-agent AI systems, retrieval-augmented generation pipelines, and generative model applications — combining deep LLM expertise with software engineering to build autonomous, production-ready AI solutions for real-world challenges.

Semiconductor Manufacturing

Years of hands-on process integration for Intel’s 7nm and 10nm nodes (Cannonlake, Icelake, Tigerlake, Alderlake), plus ML-driven root cause analysis and hotspot prediction at Siemens Calibre.

Photonics

Record-breaking photonic crystal quantum cascade lasers and high-brightness tapered QCLs for mid-infrared spectroscopy and on-chip photonic integration — with research cited over 1,000 times in leading journals.

Work Experience

Two decades of work across research labs, semiconductor giants, and my own venture — bringing you a broad, hands-on perspective on what it takes to build and ship great technology.

Founder & AI/ML Researcher — Fromthesky Research Labs

2019 – Present

Founded an independent research and consulting practice. Invented the Large Language Model from Power Law Decoder Representations (PLDR-LLM) and built its complete open-source software ecosystem, available on Hugging Face and GitHub. Partner with clients to deliver high-impact solutions in generative AI, machine learning, and data science.

Senior Machine Learning Engineer — Siemens Digital Industries

2021 – 2025

Led pathfinding work in the Calibre group — developing high-performance, highly interpretable machine learning models for semiconductor root-cause analysis, hotspot prediction, and wafer-level defect analysis. Advanced model-agnostic interpretability using Shapley values and game-theoretic methods.

Process & Physical Verification Engineer — Intel Corp

2012 – 2021

Nearly a decade at Intel across two engineering roles: developing 10nm and beyond backend process technologies for the Cannonlake, Icelake, Tigerlake, and Alderlake microprocessor generations, and writing EDA software for interconnect, latch-up, and parasitic RC extraction on 7nm and 10nm nodes.

Postdoctoral Fellow — Harvard University

2011 – 2012

Joined Prof. Federico Capasso’s group to develop high-brightness tapered quantum cascade lasers for on-chip spectroscopy, publishing results in leading applied physics journals and fabricating micron-scale devices in a cleanroom environment.

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering — Northwestern University

2004 – 2011

Earned my doctorate specializing in quantum cascade laser photonic devices at Prof. Manijeh Razeghi’s group — producing record-breaking photonic crystal distributed-feedback QCLs and pioneering 3D photonic integration techniques on III-V semiconductor wafers.

Research Highlights

Selected papers by Burc Gokden on large language models, power law attention, and graph neural networks — preprints available on arXiv, with open-source implementations on Hugging Face and GitHub.

Stay In Touch

Have a project in mind or a challenging problem you’d like a second set of eyes on? Whether it’s a frontier AI application, a semiconductor process question, or a photonics design, I’d love to hear from you. Reach out and let’s explore how Fromthesky Research Labs can help you reach your next milestone.