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Soraya Basrai

Intern Mechanical/Human Factors Engineer specializing in human-centered product design

StealthTufts University2 Years ExperienceIntern LevelWorks On-Site

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Product/UX designer with academic HCI experience (CMU HCII) and Tufts coursework who has built research-driven products ranging from a fiber-focused community wellness app to a VR emotion-inducing gamified experience. Also completed a product design internship at a stealth consumer robotics startup in the beauty industry, conducting in-salon field research and prototyping human touchpoints, and has led a website team bridging UX and engineering with hands-on coding knowledge.

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Key Strengths

  • End-to-end product design from research through wireframes and iteration (wellness app)
  • Strong user-research-driven decision making (interviews with nutrition professionals and diverse users; surveys; benchmarking)
  • Iterative prototyping and usability testing that changes product direction (rebalanced fiber tracking vs community features)
  • Ability to translate complex/technical workflows into intuitive experiences (VR multi-room emotion experience with journey maps)
  • Research synthesis from academic literature into concrete interaction/game mechanics (emotion elicitation in VR)
  • Bridges design and engineering using coding background (HTML/CSS/C++/Python)
  • Pragmatic problem-solving to align ambitious UX with engineering constraints (Instagram events popup solution)
  • Leadership and cross-functional coordination (Website Team Lead managing designers and engineers)

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Experience

R&D Mechanical Engineering InternStealth Startup · Jun 2025 – Dec 2025internship
Equity Teaching AssistantTufts University Center for Engineering Education · Jan 2024 – Dec 2024part-time
Product Design Research InternCarnegie Mellon Human-Computer Interaction Institute · May 2024 – Aug 2024internship
Website Team LeadTufts Human Factors & Ergonomics Society · Sep 2024 – Presentpart-time
Operational Assistant & Radio Show HostWMFO Freeform Station · Sep 2022 – Presentpart-time

Education

Tufts Universitybachelor, Mechanical/Human Factors Engineering (Minor: Music Engineering) (2026)

Awards

  • Dean’s List - Tufts University

Languages

English

Certifications

Dassault Systèmes | Mechanical Design

Memberships

  • Tufts Human Factors & Ergonomics Society

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Soraya BasraiIntern Mechanical/Human Factors Engineer specializing in human-centered product design