Led design of a Ku-band satcom subsystem for an unmanned underwater vehicle, built a 2,500 N thruster dynamometer, and designed the vehicle's HV power distribution and RF front end.

Satcom subsystem for a UUV

Led end-to-end design of a deployable Ku-band satellite-communications subsystem for an unmanned underwater vehicle, owning requirements and MIL-STD selection.

• Authored Python RF models optimizing a fused-quartz radome composite layup to under 0.3 dB insertion loss across ±55° scan.
• Re-architected a flat window that was failing at 300 m depth (10–30× allowable stress) into a streamlined curved membrane-compression geometry with a factor of safety above 8.

Thruster dynamometer

Designed, procured, and assembled an underwater thruster dynamometer rated to 2,500 N / 160 N·m, through a passed Critical Design Review.

• Authored a 10-failure-mode structural package (FoS ≥ 6).
• Built a Python beam-element model from CAD for components that couldn’t be meshed.
• Cut deflection 85% with diagonal bracing, and mitigated galvanic corrosion at aluminum–stainless interfaces.

Starlink qualification for submerged maritime use

Led the field campaign qualifying Starlink for submerged maritime use.

• Built a Python gRPC harness logging 44 telemetry channels at 1 Hz.
• Devised mass-based water-depth metrology (0.008 mm resolution), showing that sub-millimeter water films cause 82% packet loss.
• Pivoted the campaign to recovery-time testing across hydrophobic coatings and mount angles.

HV power distribution

Architected a kW-scale floating-HV power distribution board converting a 108–151 V pack to an isolated 48 V bus with point-of-load rails (~16× lower distribution loss), EV-grade pre-charge and contactor protection with BMS-gated fail-safe sequencing, and per-rail eFuse telemetry to an NVIDIA Jetson over isolated CAN.

RF front end

Designed and procured a four-link RF front end (5G 4×4 MIMO, precision GNSS, Iridium satcom, Wi-Fi) for the UUV’s surface antenna, resolving a ~150 dB co-site dynamic-range conflict between GNSS receive and cellular transmit with a specified Iridium-reject cavity notch filter.