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Basics

Name Steven Man
Languages English, Mandarin Chinese

Education

  • 2023.08 - ????

    Pittsburgh, PA

    Doctor of Philosophy
    Carnegie Mellon University
    Robotics
    • NSF Graduate Research Fellow
    • Tau Beta Pi Fellow
  • 2019.08 - 2023.06

    Santa Barbara, CA

    Bachelors of Science
    University of California, Sanata Barbara
    Mechanical Engineering
    • Tau Beta Pi Honor Society
    • American Society of Mechanical Engineers Club
    • UCSB Robotics Club

Awards

Work

  • 2023.06 - 2023.08

    Redmond, WA

    SpaceX
    Space Lasers Mechanical Engineering Intern
    • Designed, assembled, and tested a robotic optical alignment production stand to manufacture flight-level satellite hardware in 8 weeks
    • Implemented and optimized a robot automation procedure to reduce takt time by 50% compared to previous generation stands while achieving micron-precision alignment
  • 2021.06 - 2021.09

    Laurel, MD

    Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
    Mechanical Engineering Intern
    • Built a mechatronic assembly for the NASA Dragonfly Mission Thermal Trim Device Tests to study the system’s capacity to exchange heat with Titan’s cryogenic atmosphere
    • Performed thermal balance tests on the device in a thermal chamber and analyzed its performance

Skills

Hardware
Mechanism Design
Computer-Aided Design
PCB Design
Mechatronics
Rapid Prototyping
3D Printing
Software
Python (PyTorch, JAX, NumPy)
C++ (Arduion)
MATLAB
Julia
CAD (Onshape, SolidWorks, Siemens NX)

Interests

Algorithms
Reinforcement Learning
Physics-Informed Machine Learning
Model Predictive Control
Trajectory Optimization
Hardware
Mechanism Design
Computer-Aided Design
Mechatronics