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Rifat Khan - Pipeline Safety Inspector in Santa Fe, New Mexico

Rifat Khan

Mid-level Mechanical/Aerospace Engineer specializing in scientific computing, CFD, and ML systems

New Mexico Public Regulation CommissionUSCSanta Fe, New Mexico6 Years ExperienceMid LevelWorks On-Site

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Robotics/control-focused engineer who built and validated a series elastic actuator control stack end-to-end (dynamic modeling, torque/position control, simulation, and experimental real-time debugging on hardware). Deep simulation background (OpenFOAM/COMSOL/Abaqus) and practical reproducibility tooling (Docker/CI), with conceptual ROS/ROS2 knowledge and confidence ramping into ROS-based stacks.

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Key Strengths

  • Control, modeling, and software-hardware integration for electromechanical/robotic subsystems
  • Design and implementation of SEA torque/position control with compliance
  • Systematic real-time debugging: instrumentation, isolating timing/noise vs. model issues, iterative HIL testing
  • Simulation-to-experiment workflow for controller tuning and validation
  • Distributed-systems communication robustness (interfaces, async timing tolerance, monitoring, fail-safe behavior)
  • Strong multiphysics simulation background applied to physical system validation

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Experience

Pipeline Safety InspectorNew Mexico Public Regulation Commission · Jul 2025 – Present
Assistant ManagerCNC Enterprises, Inc. · Apr 2025 – Jul 2025
Triton Junior-Senior EngineerMercor · Feb 2025 – Mar 2025contract
Graduate Research AssistantUniversity of Southern California · Jan 2023 – Dec 2024part-time
Graduate Research AssistantWayne State University · Aug 2022 – Dec 2022part-time
Head of Technology and EngineeringNanosea SA · Mar 2022 – Jul 2022
IT ManagerVolqo GmbH · Oct 2021 – Mar 2022
PromoterLycamobile Switzerland AG · Apr 2021 – Jun 2021part-time
Graduate Teaching AssistantÉcole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne · Sep 2020 – Jun 2021part-time
Mechanical EngineerBforCure · Aug 2019 – Feb 2020
Graduate Research AssistantInstitute of Engineering Thermophysics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine · Sep 2016 – Aug 2017part-time
Chemical EngineerThe Gas Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine · Jan 2016 – Feb 2016

Education

USCmaster, Aerospace Engineering (2024)
EPFLmaster, Mechanical Engineering (2021)
International University of Financebachelor, Business Economics (2016)
National Technical University of Ukraine "Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute"bachelor, Mechanical Engineering (2016)

Awards

  • 1st Place – All-Ukrainian Student Olympiad in "Economics of Enterprise" - International University of Finance (2016)

Skills

CCUDAData AnalysisDeep LearningFeature EngineeringIncident ResponseLSTMMachine LearningMATLABPythonReinforcement LearningStatistical AnalysisStreamlitXGBoostDocker

Languages

EnglishGermanHindiFrenchRussianBengaliUkrainian

Publications

11 publications

Heat pump drying and thermal engineeringChemical process equipment and distillation/fractionationPatents (fractionating column design)DNA digital data storageProgramming languages and computingAstronomy (dwarf galaxies)Sociology and social change

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Rifat KhanMid-level Mechanical/Aerospace Engineer specializing in scientific computing, CFD, and ML systems