Keertik Bacon

3319 Debra Ct. Ellicott City, MD 21042 | (410) 375-0069 | [email protected] | US Citizen

Objective
Electrical engineering student with experience in designing, programming, and debugging mechatronics systems, computer-
aided design, and bench work, and adept in communication, word processing, and spreadsheet applications, looking for a
mechatronics co-op in Summer 2021.

Education
Georgia Institute of Technology | Atlanta, GA August 2020 – Present
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, GPA #.## Expected Graduation, May 2024

Skills
Programming: Java, Python
Hardware: Arduino UNO, NI myDAQ, programmable logic devices, soldering iron, multimeter
Software: NI Multisim, Arduino IDE, Autodesk Inventor, SolidWorks, GrabCAD, Blender, Android Studio, Eclipse, Enthought
Canopy, Spyder, TensorFlow, Keras, GitHub, Microsoft Office
Communication: Presentations, written communications, engineering documentation
Languages: English (native), French (conversational), Tamil (fluent)

Experience
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory | Laurel, MD June – August 2019
ASPIRE Intern, Intelligent Systems Center
• Developed 4-stage pipeline that recorded video from a webcam and generated a sentence description of the video,
adding functionality to a computer vision system that previously could only identify objects but not describe them
• Optimized the video captioning process, dropping the processing time for a 9 second video clip from 19 seconds to 10
seconds, almost achieving real-time processing

Relevant Coursework
Digital System Design: Boolean algebra, gate design, SSI and MSI logic, state machines, memory, basic assembly programming
ECE Discovery Studio: Delivering presentations and elevator pitches, building portfolios and resumes, research projects

Activities
FIRST Tech Challenge Robotics | Ellicott City, MD June 2015 – June 2020
Programming Technical Director and CAD Designer, Team Virus (9866)
• Led group of programmers in developing autonomous and manual robot control systems, helping Team Virus qualify for
the World Championship (Detroit, MI) in 2018 and 2020, as one of 250-300 qualifying teams out of 7,500 total competing
teams
• Implemented an odometry localization system and pure pursuit navigation system to aid autonomous robot movement,
increasing our 2020 robot’s autonomous period point yield by 48% and overall per-game point yield by 19%
• Designed, prototyped, and implemented a system of hooks to allow our 2020 robot to latch onto and move a game
element, increasing our per-game point yield by 30%

Project Lead the Way (PLTW) Engineering Design and Development | Ellicott City, MD September 2019 – May 2020
CAD Designer, Fabrication Engineer, Outreach Coordinator
• Worked in a group of three to develop the Riving Guard, a less intrusive table saw guard, to address expert consensus
expressing a dislike of traditional polycarbonate saw guards, receiving positive reviews from a panel of 5 engineers from
Lockheed Martin and Johns Hopkins University
• Conducted surveys on various online woodworking and DIY forums and established contacts with 5 local woodworking
experts to get a professional viewpoint on table saw safety, receiving more than 50 survey responses and personally
interviewing 2 experts