// about
About
I build systems that sit close to the hardware — assemblers, logic circuits, sensor pipelines. Currently studying ECE at UIUC as a James Scholar with a focus on embedded systems and digital design.
At UIUC I'm on the Illini Electric Motorsports team working on low voltage and sensor integration for the formula EV car. Before that: a lunar habitat power distribution system at ISSDC where our team placed runner-up internationally, a CERN beamline proposal as team lead, and Paperio — a pipeline that makes dense academic papers actually readable.
I grew up in Kolkata. Outside engineering, I spent three years on the board of Brightbytes, scaling a computing literacy program from 50 to 150 learners across three community centres.
// projects
Projects
LC-3 Assembler & Compiler
Independent Research · Prof. Lumetta
A complete two-pass assembler for the LC-3 instruction set, written from scratch in Rust. Implements a lexer, symbol table, and binary encoder covering all 15 instructions — ADD, AND, BR, JMP, JSR, LD, LDI, LDR, LEA, NOT, ST, STI, STR, TRAP, and RTI. Error messages flag exact line, column, and cause.
.ORIG x3000 ADD R0, R1, R2 STR R0, R1, #0 HALT .END
CurveCraft
Individual Project
A Python semiconductor device-modelling toolkit. Implements diode I-V curve fitting, MOSFET Id–Vgs and Id–Vds fitting, and Rds_on extraction — each with ngspice netlist generation, SPICE simulation, and validation against analytical models. Maintained with CI, release tags, engineering logs, and structured milestone tracking.
PDK Cartographer
Individual Project
A fixture-first Sky130 PDK exploration toolkit. Implements a typed Liberty parser — lexer, group parsing, and dataclasses for cells, pins, timing arcs, lookup-table templates, and timing tables. Validated read-only against 1,474 real Sky130 Liberty files; generates deterministic Markdown, CSV, and JSON reports for standard-cell atlases, timing-table summaries, and PDK manifests. Maintained with pytest, ruff, mypy, and CI.
Paperio
Individual Project
A pipeline that takes dense academic PDFs and restructures them for readability — section by section, context preserved. LLM-driven backend with a modular prompt architecture; handles varied paper formats without prompt rewrites.
4-Bit Calculator
Engineering Design Project
A 4-bit arithmetic unit built entirely from discrete logic gates — no microcontrollers, no pre-built ALU chips. Implements addition and subtraction with carry propagation, a register to hold intermediate results, and 7-segment display output.
ECE 110 / 120 Lab Projects
UIUC · Course Projects
Three hardware projects built from first principles: a light-seeking robot using analog comparator feedback, an applause meter with signal conditioning and threshold detection, and a vending machine controller implemented as a finite state machine in combinational logic.
International Space Settlement Design Competition
ISSDC · Runner-up, International
Designed the full power distribution network for a 1,200-person lunar habitat concept — permanently shadowed crater site, solar storm contingency, uneven terrain. Presented the design to Boeing engineers at the international finals; team placed runner-up.
CERN Beamline Proposal
CERN · Team Lead
Team lead for an experimental proposal submitted to CERN's Beamline for Schools competition. Designed a muon lifetime measurement experiment using delay wire chambers and scintillation counters. Coordinated six people and liaised directly with CERN physicists during the design review.
// skills
Skills
// experience
Experience
Low Voltage & Sensors — Illini Electric Motorsports
Formula EV · UIUC
Working on the low voltage system and sensor integration for UIUC's formula-style electric race car. On the low voltage side I work on power distribution and control circuits. On sensors I deal with signal conditioning and getting reliable data out of hardware under real track conditions.
ECE Department Front Desk Assistant
UIUC · Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Primary point of contact for students, faculty, and visitors. Manage scheduling logistics, facility coordination, and day-to-day departmental operations.
Communications and Outreach Chair
James Scholar Honors Board
Manage outreach to 800+ James Scholars via Instagram and email newsletters, covering honors seminars, research opportunities, and networking events.
Intern
Levana Floors Pvt Ltd
Automated daily inventory processes reducing manual errors by 30%. Redesigned and rebuilt the company website.
https://levanafloors.in ↗Board of Directors
Brightbytes
Scaled the program from 50 to 150 learners across three community centres by standardising a computing curriculum covering digital literacy, programming basics, and intro hardware.
// education
Education
B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
James Scholar · GPA 4.0
ISC 2025
La Martiniere for Boys, Kolkata
98% average · 100/100 Mathematics · 99/100 Computer Science
// writing
Writing
I write when I have something worth saying — usually about building things, how they work underneath, or why a particular design decision made sense. No schedule, no newsletter. First posts coming soon.
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Contact
Interested in embedded systems, hardware prototyping, and research-adjacent engineering roles. Best reached by email — I respond within a day.