Portfolio
Six devices, sketch to field
Each of these started as a researcher's problem and ended as a working unit under water, in a greenhouse or on an animal. I did the electronics, the mechanics and the firmware on all of them.
Coral Reef Probiotic Dispenser
An autonomous underwater doser that keeps heat-stressed coral supplied with probiotics. Swappable reservoirs with magnetic-drive mixing, encoder-controlled 1 cc dosing across 10 channels, and up to six months on a charge. Deployed in the Red Sea.
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Plant Root Phenotyping Machine
A 4-axis imaging robot that photographs germinating roots around the clock, with programmable RGB lighting and heated anti-condensation stages, feeding a deep-learning analysis pipeline. Patented and published in Plant Methods.
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Marine Animal Tracking Tag
A potted, submersible tag logging GPS, depth, temperature and orientation, offloading data whenever the animal surfaces. LoRa and ARGOS-satellite variants, deployed on seals in the Caspian Sea.
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Accessibility Device for Speech Therapy
Lightweight headgear that reads lip and mouth movement with flexible magnetic tags and an array of magnetoresistive sensors, streaming over BLE to a phone app for real-time syllable classification. Published in Advanced Intelligent Systems.
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Handheld Nitrogen Dioxide Detector
A pocket-sized NO₂ detector built around a novel IGZO thin-film transistor sensor: integrated pump, sealed sampling chamber, signal conditioning and UV regeneration, resolving well below the 5 ppm OSHA limit.
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Multipurpose Marine Sensor Buoy
A solar-powered surface buoy and submerged sensor hub that stream giant-clam behaviour, light and surge data to the cloud over cellular in real time. First-author paper at IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium 2020.
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