Resume

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering

• Working on batteryless underwater sensing using acoustic backscatter

• Developed a wireless protocol for custom ultra-low power modems to support a range of use cases
• Built software tools to automate aspects of FPGA testing
• Established a simulated RTL CI pipeline for FPGA and ASIC design

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

• Developed embedded firmware for version 6 of WISP devices, and built a cross-platform desktop app to collect and visualize its data.
• 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 a ray-tracing based, GPU-accelerated, simulator for modeling RF propagation and 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)

• Digital and analog circuit design
• PCB design, rapid prototyping
• Wirelss communication (RFID, LoRa, Bluetooth)

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