• Real-time, bare-metal software development in C for systems with hard real-time constraints• Python development of hardware abstraction layer to interface with real-time embedded systems• Qt for Python based GUI development using PySide6 to enable easy user control of hardware• PCB schematic design, analysis, layout and debugging

• Clean slate design, implementation and test of a modular aided inertial navigation system (INS), including mechanization and error state extended Kalman filter algorithm development to fuse inertial (IMU) and non-inertial sensor data into a robust navigation solution• Manage a small team responsible for design and implementation of high performance line-of-sight control system hardware and software• Support business transition & integration with GA-ASI

• Design, layout, routing (in Altium Designer) & debugging of rigid and flex analog, digital, mixed signal, high speed, HDI and power PCBs• Embedded software development in C to implement high bandwidth gimbal stabilization, pointing, tracking using fast steering mirrors, motors, rate gyroscopes, inertial measurement units, and inertial navigation systems• Design and implementation of pointing, acquisition & tracking (PAT) for free space optical systems• MATLAB/Simulink & Python modeling and analysis of control systems, actuators and sensors• Control system tuning using in-house built system identification tool• Extended Kalman filter development and implementation• Implement field oriented control based commutation of three-phase permanent magnet synchronous motors using application specific PCBs I designed and tested• Ownership of the printed circuit board design and review process• Electrical system design & requirements definition• Technical management and mentoring of junior engineers• Initiate and maintain vendor relationships

• Developed a hardware-in-the-loop testbed to demonstrate a novel adaptive navigation filter capable of filtering cheap, cubesat grade sensors to enable higher quality attitude control for cubesats.

• Repaired and maintained scientific instrumentation in support of a nano-engineering research lab.

• Assemble an atomic force microscope (AFM), perform force curve tests and image various surfaces.• Attach carbon nanotubes (CNTs) to AFM probes in the scanning electron microscope (SEM).• Finite element analysis (FEA) simulation of multi-walled CNTs and comparison of these results to the AFM force curve tests.

• Investigated which synthesis procedures and conditions lead to the highest quality titanium dioxide nano-sword samples• Redesigned synthesis system to measure the amount of air leaking in• Machined parts for modifications to a metal evaporator to allow operator to spin the stage continuously while evaporating• Investigated a method of reducing the contact resistance of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) for their use as a micro-to-nano level interconnect

• Characterization of nanomaterials for sustainable energy applications in Dr. Bin Chen's group• Directed 3 undergrads in bringing a $150,000 4-point probe station capable of cooling samples to 4K back online