North Star is a student-led technology and R&D initiative focused on turning ambitious engineering ideas into tangible, working prototypes.
We believe engineering begins with genuine curiosity, develops through persistent experimentation, and only proves meaningful when theoretical calculations translate into reliable physical hardware.
North Star is not about passive simulations. We write low-level code that commands physical action, assemble custom circuitry, and treat bench failure as an indispensable step in refining system performance.
To explore practical technologies across robotics, aerospace, embedded controllers, and AI while solving concrete engineering challenges. We aim to bridge the gap between classroom theory and field-ready systems.
To evolve North Star into an advanced engineering initiative capable of building high-reliability hardware platforms that rival industry standards in agility, accessibility, and technical rigor.
A multidisciplinary team combining engineering, research, firmware development, and strategy to build accessible advanced technology.
Founder • Systems Engineer • AI & Embedded Systems • Strategic Diplomacy
Driving North Star's technical vision across embedded systems, robotics, and aerospace. Specializes in pairing low-cost silicon (ESP32/ARM) with optimized firmware to deploy real-time machine intelligence locally.
Extensive hands-on engineering background spanning international robotics competitions and regional technical consortiums, instilling high standards for stress-testing and physical bench validation.
Brings unique experience from international diplomatic simulations and policy summits, translating complex engineering architectures into accessible solutions and collaborative cross-border problem solving.
“Advanced technology should not only be possible — it should be accessible.”
This intersection of engineering rigor and strategic communication shapes our commitment: building hardware and software platforms that are not merely theoretical curiosities, but practical, deployable systems addressing tangible real-world problems.
Mechanical & Robotics Engineer • Rapid Prototyping
Focuses on mechanical chassis architecture, robotic drive kinematics, and physical integration. Oversees 3D CAD modeling, finite element stress testing, and rapid mechanical iteration on bench prototypes.
Electrical & Hardware Engineer • International R&D
Specializes in power rail regulation, high-speed differential signal integrity, and custom PCB architecture. Leverages international engineering team experience to enforce strict electrical fault tolerances.
CS & Electrical Engineer • Software & Business Ops
Combines computer science and electrical engineering to develop low-latency firmware pipelines. Alongside technical software development, drives operational strategy, research grants, and external technical adoption.
Formal technical documentation, research whitepapers, and engineering competition benchmarks.
Investigates clock drift compensation and jitter minimization across asynchronous I2C and SPI peripheral buses on dual-core Xtensa LX7 microcontrollers. Proposes a FreeRTOS high-priority interrupt scheduler achieving sub-50µs phase alignment for 6-DoF inertial sensors and optical flow streams.
Evaluates differential signaling performance, bus termination resistance, and hardware-filtered packet arbitration in compact autonomous vehicles. Outlines a binary packet serialization scheme achieving 99.8% successful delivery at 1 Mbps under heavy electromagnetic motor noise.
Complete engineering design document detailing the 4-layer FR4 PCB stackup, power distribution network (PMIC), thermal dissipation parameters, and 200 Hz complementary Kalman filter state estimation algorithms for the Varsha telemetry node.
The hardware, software, and conceptual tools we use to bring North Star projects to life.