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Rohan Menon

rohan@rohanmenon.com

An engineering student with a focus on embedded devices, sensors, and wireless technologies who thrives in fast-paced, collaborative environments.

education

University of Washington · Second year

2021 – Present

College of Engineering (intended electrical engineering)

Niskayuna High School · Niskayuna NY

2017 – 2021

research

UW Sensor Systems Lab with Prof. Joshua Smith

2022 – Present

Works on WISP, a family of batteryless sensors that are powered by and communicate entirely through UHF RFID power harvesting and backscatter.

  • Develops hardware and firmware for the next generation of WISP sensors and desktop software for developing applications with WISP devices
  • R. Menon*, R. Gujarathi*, A. Saffari, J. Smith, “Wireless Identification and Sensing Platform Version 6.0,” to be presented at ACM LP-IoT, 2022 (*Authors contributed equally)

Lake Submersible with William Keat

Summer 2019

Worked with Professor Keat of Union College in his mechanical engineering lab on a ballast-controlled submersible designed to explore and photograph a local lake.

  • Explored magnetometer-based sensing to locate a sunken car
  • Coordinated with Union’s Geosciences Department for our in-water test

projects

Technical Design Lead – NY STEAM Bus

2016 – 2021

A student-founded and led school bus retrofitted with STEAM education technology that produces and teaches lessons.

  • Designed initial school bus retrofit and took part in its physical renovation
  • Responsible for the integration of technology both for the function of the program and within student lessons

Resonant

2020 – 2021

A system to localize and identify ambient noises and present them to a user through a wearable device.

  • 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
  • Received Highest Honors at the STANYS science and engineering fair

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Aquametric

2018 – 2020

Ultra low power, real-time, stream and river monitoring devices with a battery life of up to one year in the field.

  • Worked with low-power hardware and firmware, LoRa communication, cellular IoT devices, and ultrasonic/LiDAR ranging technologies
  • Won the Hackaday Bootstrap Award and was a finalist for the Hackaday Prize 2020, an international competition for open-source hardware and software

skills

Hardware

  • PCB design and assembly
  • IoT (WiFi/Cellular/LoRa) devices
  • CAD and rapid prototyping

Software

  • Python, Java
  • Embedded C/C++ and low-level programming
  • Web development – SASS, JS/React, PHP