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Rana Taki

Junior Mechanical Engineering & Software Developer specializing in aviation autonomy and retrieval systems

Stanford, CAResearch Assistant2 years experienceJuniorAerospace & DefenseAviationArtificial Intelligence
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Robotics/embedded builder who trained an aviation-specific LLM and deployed it offline on an NVIDIA Jetson for an in-flight voice assistant, solving performance and cabling constraints with NVMe storage and Bluetooth. Also has hands-on Raspberry Pi/Arduino robot builds (including a cigarette-butt picking prototype with hydraulic actuation) plus Docker-based FEA work using FEniCS/Gmsh and strong CI/CD + automated testing practices.

Experience

Research AssistantStanford Intelligent Systems Laboratory
Lead DeveloperAvia
Software Engineering InternRefik Anadol Studio
Structures and AvionicsStanford Flight Club

Education

Stanford Universitybachelor, Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science (2026)

Key Strengths

  • Deployed an offline aviation voice assistant by integrating an LLM on NVIDIA Jetson
  • Performance optimization via hardware upgrade (added high-speed NVMe SSD to improve model speed)
  • Hands-on hardware/software integration (GPS, Bluetooth, Linux bring-up on embedded platform)
  • Built end-to-end robotics prototypes using Raspberry Pi + Arduino with serial communication
  • Iterated robot mechanism design from claw to hydraulic system to improve control/accuracy
  • Applied FEA workflows in Docker using FEniCS/Gmsh with automated testing and solver convergence checks

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Languages

English

Skills

PythonCC++MATLABJavaScriptSwiftSQLLinuxEmbedded LinuxGitROSNVIDIA JetsonReal-time SystemsTelemetryComputer Vision