Abed Musaffar Email & Phone Number

- Worked with advisor Professor Enoch Yeung in the Biological Control & Computing Laboratory at UCSB- Working on elucidating how gyrase behavior responds to stress in E. coli cells- Currently developing next-generation techniques for high fidelity interrogation of gyrase and cleavage activity

- Won the Best Innovation in Mechanical Engineering Award ($1500 prize) for a Senior Capstone Design in Mechanical Engineering- Led a team at UCSB to develop ARES, the Advanced Regolith Excavation System. ARES is a next-generation excavation module for the Venturi Astrolab FLEX rover that will enable mass harvesting of the lunar regolith for in-Situ.

- Worked with Professor Samantha Daly, Dr. Bhavana Swaminathan, and Caelin Muir in the Daly Group at UCSB- Researched the characterization of damage mechanisms in Ceramic Matrix Composites, high temperature structures for aerospace and space applications.- Developed a novel edge detection algorithm using Python for automated analysis and visualization of.

Hawthorne, California, United States

- Worked at aerospace startup Venturi Astrolab as a Mechanical Engineering & Business intern in Hawthorne, CA- Designed and developed a payload adapter plate to easily facilitate interfacing of assorted modules to the Astrolab FLEX rover. To date, the adapter plate has been used on every under-slung payload module demoed by Astrolab and is featured both on.

Santa Barbara, California

- Worked in the Rocket Propulsion Laboratory, a senior capstone project at UCSB endeavoring to develop a cryogenic liquid bipropellant rocket that will compete in the FAR Mars competition- Assisted in the development of a cryogenic feed system to facilitate transportation of liquid cryogen from a containment dewar to the engine for ignition- Performed.

- Worked at NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, CA as part of their Intelligent Systems Division - Researched the development of a machine learning model for unmanned navigation of non-urban terrain- Generated training datasets for use in training the objective machine learning models. The training datasets developed included labeled images for.

- Worked at NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, CA as part of their Intelligent Systems Division - Assisted in the development of soft-robotic structures known as tensegrities which are composed of elements of pure compression and pure tension and feature low mass and extremely high robustness- Developed methods of rapidly prototyping six-rod.