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Rohan Menon
rohan@rohanmenon.comAn engineering graduate with a focus on embedded devices, software development, and networking who loves working on challenging problems in fast-paced collaborative teams.
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University of Washington
Sep 2021 - Dec 2023B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering
Relevant coursework: The Hardware/Software Interface · Computer Networks · Computer Architecture · Network Security and Cryptography · Digital Imaging Systems
Experience
Research Assistant · UW Sensor Systems Lab
Feb 2022 - Mar 2024WISP - a family of batteryless sensors that are powered by and communicate entirely through UHF RFID power harvesting and backscatter.
- Developed hardware and embedded firmware for a new, modular, generation of WISP devices.
- Designed and built a cross-platform desktop application to collect and visualize data from WISP.
- R. Menon, R. Gujarathi, A. Saffari, J. Smith, “Wireless Identification and Sensing Platform Version 6.0”, EnsSys 2022
Deep Contact Graph Routing - a collaboration with Astrobotic, developing new networking strategies for future lunar assets.
- Built ray-tracing based, GPU-accelerated, simulator for modeling RF propagation between agents.
- Created open-source framework for simulating networking between mobile agents.
- D. Ta, R. Menon, J. Taggart, A. Tettamanti, S. Feaser, P. Torrado, J. Smith, “Roaming DTN: Integrating Unscheduled Nodes into Contact Plan Based DTN Networks”, to be presented at CCAA (June 2023)
Projects
Resonant
Nov 2020 - Jun 2021A system to localize and identify ambient noises and present them to a user through a wearable display.
- Developed a 3D sound localization algorithm using a microphone array with phase shift estimation and created a heads-up display to communicate this information to a user.
Aquametric
Oct 2018 - Dec 2020Low power, cellular-based, stream and river monitoring devices. Won a Hackaday Bootstrap Award and was a finalist for the Hackaday Prize 2020, an international competition for open-source electronics.
- Used power gating and aggressive sleep states to extend its battery life to one year in the field.
- Developed firmware enabling features like OTA updates and a variable sensor uplink cadence.
Skills
Hardware
- Digital (incl. Verilog) and analog circuit design
- PCB design, rapid prototyping
- Cellular, LoRa, RFID communication
Software
- Python, Rust, C/C++
- Frontend dev (JS/TS, React, web design)
- Embedded firmware