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B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering

Relevant coursework: The Hardware/Software Interface · Computer Networks · Computer Architecture · Network Security and Cryptography · Digital Imaging Systems

WISP - 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)

A 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.

Low 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.

• Used power gating and aggressive sleep states to extend its battery life to one year in the field.
• Developed firmware enabling features like OTA updates and a variable sensor uplink cadence.

• Digital (incl. Verilog) and analog circuit design
• PCB design, rapid prototyping
• Cellular, LoRa, RFID communication

• Python, Rust, C/C++
• Frontend dev (JS/TS, React, web design)
• Embedded firmware