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Rana Taki

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

Stanford UniversityStanford UniversityStanford, CA2 Years ExperienceJunior LevelWorks On-Site

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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.

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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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Experience

Research AssistantStanford Intelligent Systems Laboratory · Jan 2025 – Present
Lead DeveloperAvia · Jan 2025 – Present
Software Engineering InternRefik Anadol Studio · Jan 2023 – Jan 2023internship
Structures and AvionicsStanford Flight Club · Jan 2025 – Present

Education

Stanford Universitybachelor, Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science (2026)

Languages

English

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