Electrical and Computer Engineering

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)

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

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

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

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