Dhruv S.
About Dhruv S.
Dhruv S. is an Electrical Engineer and Embedded Systems Engineer with a Master's degree from UCLA. He has extensive research and internship experience, including roles at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Amazon, focusing on hardware development and embedded systems.
Current Role at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Dhruv S. currently works as an Electrical Engineer/Embedded Systems Engineer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He has been in this role since 2023, focusing on designing components for a particle accelerator as part of Project Scorpius. This position allows him to apply his expertise in electrical engineering and embedded systems to advanced scientific projects.
Education and Expertise
Dhruv S. holds a Master's degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from UCLA, which he completed from 2021 to 2023. He also earned a Bachelor of Science in the same field from UCLA from 2017 to 2021. His educational background provides a strong foundation in electrical engineering principles and practices.
Professional Experience at CHIPS
Dhruv S. worked at CHIPS in various capacities, including as a Graduate Researcher from 2021 to 2023 and as an Undergraduate Research Assistant from 2020 to 2021. During his time at CHIPS, he actively participated in transistor research and wrote a thesis on random telegraph noise in an analog memory device.
Internship Experience at Amazon
Dhruv S. completed two internships at Amazon as a Hardware Development Engineering Intern. His first internship was in 2021, followed by another in 2022, both lasting three months and based in Redmond, Washington. His work involved automating testing for a MAC layer simulator and designing GUIs to facilitate testing as part of Project Kuiper.
Leadership Roles in Bruin Spacecraft Group
During his time at UCLA, Dhruv S. held leadership positions in the Bruin Spacecraft Group. He served as the Micro-G NExT Team Lead from 2017 to 2018, where he led a team invited to the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory in Houston for device testing. He also acted as the Communications Team Lead from 2018 to 2020, overseeing the design, construction, and testing of a two-way radio connection for Project Overseer.