Frank Zhou

Frank Zhou

Santa Clara, California, United States
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Experience

  • Pure Storage Graphic

    Pure Storage

    San Francisco Bay Area

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    San Jose

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    Pasadena, CA

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    Pasadena, California

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    Pasadena, CA

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    Providence, Rhode Island Area

Education

  • Caltech Graphic

    Caltech

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    Activities and Societies: Caltech Robotics Team, Caltech Science Olympiad, Caltech Y Rise Tutoring

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    Activities and Societies: FIRST Tech Challenge Captain, Math Team Captain, Quiz Bowl, High School Quiz Show, FIRST Lego League Mentor, National Honor Society

Volunteer Experience

  • FIRST Graphic

    FIRST Lego League Mentor and Referee

    FIRST

    - 3 years 5 months

    Science and Technology

    • Held weekly FIRST Lego League tournaments for elementary and middle school teams competing in the competition
    • Mentored several teams by guiding them through design iterations and giving them tips on how to improve
    • Refereed local and state competitions

  • Proctor

    Science Olympiad

    - Present 11 years 3 months

    Science and Technology

    • Proctored and graded events for the Southern California Science Olympiad tournaments

  • RISE Tutor

    Caltech Y

    - 9 months

    Science and Technology

    • Tutored local high school students for math and science classes

Courses

  • Advanced Digital Systems Design

    EE 119

  • Analog Electronics Project

    EE 090

  • Circuits and Systems

    EE 044

  • Classical Mechanics and Electromagnetism

    Ph 001

  • Computer Language Shop (C)

    CS 011

  • Computer Programming (Python)

    CS 001

  • Design and Construction of Biodevices

    BE/EE/MedE 189

  • Design and Fabrication

    ME 014

  • Digital Signal Processing

    EE 112

  • Electromagnetic Engineering

    EE 151

  • Electronics Laboratory

    EE 045

  • Engineering Design Laboratory

    ME 072

  • Experimental Projects in Electronic Circuits

    EE 091

  • Experiments in Electromagnetism

    Ph 008

  • Feedback Control Systems

    CDS 110

  • Learning Systems

    CS/CNS/EE 156

  • Mechanical Prototyping

    ME 013

  • Methods of Applied Mathematics for the Physical Sciences

    ACM 095

  • Microprocessor Systems Laboratory

    EE/CS 052

  • Principles of Microprocessor Systems

    EE/CS 051

  • Programming Methods (C++)

    CS 002

  • Random Variables and Stochastic Processes

    EE 160

  • Semiconductor Devices

    EE 040

  • Signal-Processing Systems and Transforms

    EE 111

  • Solid-State Electronics for Integrated Circuits

    APh/EE 009

  • Waves, Quantum Mechanics, and Statistical Physics

    Ph 002

Projects

  • Caltech Robotics Team

    - Present

    I worked with other Caltech undergraduate students to design and build an autonomous underwater vehicle to compete in the AUVSI Underwater Vehicle Competition. We won best new entry in 2014, 4th place in 2015, and 1st place in 2016. I am currently leading the electrical subteam.
    • Designed custom electronics architecture to interface Intel NUC computer with hardware
    • Designed and implemented modular ARM microprocessor system to sense environment and control actuators
    • Established…

    I worked with other Caltech undergraduate students to design and build an autonomous underwater vehicle to compete in the AUVSI Underwater Vehicle Competition. We won best new entry in 2014, 4th place in 2015, and 1st place in 2016. I am currently leading the electrical subteam.
    • Designed custom electronics architecture to interface Intel NUC computer with hardware
    • Designed and implemented modular ARM microprocessor system to sense environment and control actuators
    • Established communications across microprocessors using custom drivers for a CAN network

    See project

  • Electronic Stethoscope

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    I designed and built an electronic stethoscope for Caltech's Analog Electronics Project course.
    • Filtered signals from an electret microphone with a 4th order low pass filter using fully differential op amps to reduce noise
    • Used an audio amplifier to output amplified sounds to headphone jack
    • Components were soldered onto PCB and stethoscope was tested

  • Caltech ME 072 Design Competition

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    We designed and constructed three robots to compete in Caltech's annual ME 072 competition in which three teleoperated robots are used to gather and score soccer balls into elevated goals.
    • Wrote software to read inputs from gamepads
    • Used XBee radios to send commands from laptop to the three robots
    • Programmed Teensy microprocessors to parse radio inputs to actuate motors and servos

    Other creators

  • Blackfin MP3 Player

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    I created a fully functional MP3 player controlled by a Blackfin microprocessor in Caltech's Microprocessor Systems Laboratory course.
    • Fully designed schematics for microprocessor, display, keypad, audio, IDE, DRAM, SRAM, and ROM sections
    • Completed PCB design and layout
    • Soldered components onto the fabricated board and debugged hardware issues
    • Wrote firmware for the completed system

  • ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit Demo

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    As a part of the core team for the ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit Demo, I was responsible for designing and implementing a system that visualizes the instability created by renewable energy and shows that the system can be stabilized through feedback control.
    • Constructed a LED table of 150 individually addressable LEDs
    • Programmed an Arduino to change the colors of the LEDs based on the time varying nodal voltages of a real power network
    • Presented work at the 2015 ARPA-E Energy…

    As a part of the core team for the ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit Demo, I was responsible for designing and implementing a system that visualizes the instability created by renewable energy and shows that the system can be stabilized through feedback control.
    • Constructed a LED table of 150 individually addressable LEDs
    • Programmed an Arduino to change the colors of the LEDs based on the time varying nodal voltages of a real power network
    • Presented work at the 2015 ARPA-E Energy Summit

    Other creators

  • FIRST Tech Challenge

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    I was the team captain of Team Unlimited for four years. We competed in the FIRST Tech Challenge and qualified for the World Championship three times.
    • Brainstormed, prototyped, and constructed robots to compete in the annual challenge
    • Won first place at numerous regional and state competitions in the New England area
    • Outreach was recognized internationally when we won the Connect Award at the World Championship

    See project

Languages

  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Chinese

    Professional working proficiency

  • Spanish

    Limited working proficiency

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