M.S. Degree Candidate in Electrical Engineering - Class of 2018
During the summer of 2017, I worked as a firmware engineer on Tesla's Energy Products team. I took on an open ended digital signal processing challenge, and designed an unconventional, nonlinear, predictive digital filter to condition specific signals from Tesla's battery module. I developed post processing scripts in MATLAB to verify and optimize the step and steady state responses of my filter. Then, I implemented the algorithm in C for execution on the central microcontroller, architecting the firmware module to easily plug into the existing code base.
The summer after by sophomore year, I worked with the R&D team at Intellibot, LLC, a rapidly growing robotics company that specializes in the design and production of autonomous floor-cleaning robots. For 11 weeks, I contributed to the electronic design of the next generation of their machines. I designed and conducted experiments to characterize proximity sensors, researched and experimented with alternative sensors, and wrote comprehensive reports to demonstrate my findings; assembled, tested and debugged circuit boards; designed a PCB to replace an existing section of the current machine’s hardware; installed new hardware on their robots to meet CE safety standards; performed “dead bug” prototyping for IC testing and integration and contributed to high level software design.
I have worked for three semesters as a Teaching Fellow for Harvard College's Electrical Engineering course, the Joy of Electronics. This semester (Fall 2017), I am a Course Assistant for the graduate electronics class, Physics 223, a course designed by Paul Horowitz, the co-author of the 'Art of Electronics', and taught by Thomas Hayes, the author of 'Learning the Art of Electronics'. I commit 12+ hours per week to instructing and assisting students in lab to design and build various analog and digital circuits. Additionally, I hold office hours to answer student questions and lead review sections before exams. TFing has been one of my favorite experiences at Harvard, through which I've meet and developed strong relationships with much of Harvard's Engineering student body.
The summer after my freshman year, I was an intern in Regulatory affairs at AngioDynamics, Inc., an international Medical Device company. I helped to improve the clarity of the company’s technical and regulatory documents using Microsoft Office to streamline the approval process for medical devices with the FDA. I gained an understanding of the medical device industry and the strong role that Regulatory Affairs plays within it.
RFC Cambridge is an autonomous robotic soccer club with factions at both Harvard and MIT. We design and manufacture a team of soccer playing robots to compete autonomously against other robotics teams. As Co-President during my Junior year, I grew our team at MIT, where I oversaw and contributed to the development of our system's C++ software framework, based on the Robotic Operating System (ROS). I developed our C firmware framework from the ground up (targeted at the SAM3S, a microcontroller in the ARM Cortex M3 Family), and contributed significantly to the hardware design and layout process of our central control board. I assembled and debugged each electronic sub-system - motor control, radio communications and central control boards - and brought each to a functional, collaborative state. Now that our robots are moving, we are aiming to compete in the 2018 international Robocup competition in Montreal, Canada!
Through my coursework at Harvard and pursuit of personal interests, I have involved myself in various engineering projects. Please check them out here!
I love to create things, to apply new knowledge to solve interesting problems, to experience the design process from start to finish. I have found that Engineering and Computer Science enable me to do exactly this. While Electrical Engineering is my focus and designing embedded systems intrigues me, I aspire to gain experience and knowledge across disciplines because I believe it will allow me to construct more creative and comprehensive solutions to the Engineering challenges I will face in the future.
I competed and was a consistent scorer for Harvard's Division 1 Varsity Nordic Ski team during my Freshman and Sophomore years in college. I compete in intramural soccer and crew on campus and stay very physically active to balance out my studies. I love the outdoors. Whether it be hiking, running, skiing or rowing, I always jump at the opportunity to get outside.
I'm also a musician. I play both the electric and stand-up basses, and am always looking to jam with other musicians. I consistently play with a group of friends at school, and with my brother, who's working to release his first album as an independent artist this year.
Email: liamjmulshine AT gmail dot com
Github: https://github.com/ljmulshine