Electrical and Computer Engineering

Worked 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.
• Presented our work at EnsSys 2022, a workshop at ACM SenSys
• R. Menon, R. Gujarathi, A. Saffari, J. Smith, “Wireless Identification and Sensing Platform Version 6.0”, EnsSys 2022

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-field test

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

• Designed initial school bus retrofit and took part in its physical renovation
• Responsible for technology used in student lessons and for operating the program

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

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