Rohan Menon
An engineering student deeply interested in embedded devices, sensors, and wireless technologies who thrives in fast-paced, collaborative environments.
Education
University of Washington · Graduating December 2023
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research
UW Sensor Systems Laboratory with Prof. Joshua Smith
Works on WISP, a family of batteryless sensors that are powered by and communicate entirely through UHF RFID power harvesting and backscatter.
- Developed hardware and embeddded firmware for a new generation of WISP sensors and a companion desktop application.
- R. Menon, R. Gujarathi, A. Saffari, J. Smith, “Wireless Identification and Sensing Platform Version 6.0”, EnsSys 2022
Also works on Deep Contact Graph Routing, a collaboration with Astrobotic, developing new routing protocols for the Moon.
- Created framework for simulating routing protocols with RF aware 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)
Lake Submersible with Prof. William Keat
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.
- Coordinated with Union’s Geosciences Department for our in-field test
Projects
Technical Design Lead · NY STEAM Bus
A student-founded and led school bus retrofitted with STEAM education technology that produces and teaches lessons to middle and elementary school students.
- Responsible for technology used in student lessons and for operating the program
Resonant
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
Aquametric
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 and cellular communication, 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
- Digital circuit design, PCB design
- Cellular/LoRa/RFID communication
- Low power systems
Software
- Python, Java, JS, C/C++
- Web and native app development
- CAD and rapid prototyping