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Rohan Menon
rohan@rohanmenon.comAn engineering student with a focus on embedded devices, sensors, and wireless technologies who thrives in fast-paced, collaborative environments.
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University of Washington
Graduating December 2023B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering · GPA: 3.4/4
Relevant coursework: The Hardware/Software Interface · Computer Networks · Computer Architecture · Network Security and Cryptography · Digital Imaging Systems
Experience
Research Assistant · UW Sensor Systems Lab
2022 - PresentWISP - 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
2020 - 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
2018 - 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.
- Developed firmware enabling features like OTA updates and a variable sensor uplink cadence.
- Created a backend and web interface for consuming data from the sensors in real time.
Skills
Embedded
- Firmware development, FreeRTOS
- Cellular, LoRa, RFID communication
- Digital and analog circuits, PCB design
Software development
- Python, Rust, C/C++
- Frontend (JS/TS, React, web design)
- Flask, Django