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$ whoami

name:       Vedant K. Naik
location:   San Francisco Bay Area
tagline:    "building smart systems and solving hard problems."

industry:
  - company:  Tesla
    role:     Drive Inverter Firmware Engineer
    stack:    [ SiC inverters, field-oriented control, embedded C, real-time firmware ]

  - company:  Lucid Motors
    role:     ADAS Sensor Hardware Engineer
    stack:    [ camera bring-up, autonomous pipeline arch, DoIP, gPTP, TC10 ]

research:   Smart Microsystems Lab, MSU · PI: Dr. Xiaobo Tan
            → soft-robotic sensing, ML for nonlinear actuator dynamics,
              6-DOF blimp dynamics, EHGO disturbance rejection

open_to:    [ motor control, autonomous systems, firmware/dynamics boundary problems ]

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$ git stats

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$ ls ./publications

📄	BiPneu: Design and Control of a Bipolar-Pressure Pneumatic System for Soft Robots Yu Mei, Xinyu Zhou, Vedant Naik, et al. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 2026 · Video
📄	Nonlinear Compensation of Stretchable Strain Sensors with Application to Proprioceptive Sensing of Soft Robotic Arm Vedant Naik, Preston Fairchild, Xiaobo Tan Smart Materials and Structures, Feb 2025 · DOI · Video

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$ ls ./active_projects

⚡	Traction Inverter v2 — SiC FOC inverter for MSU Solar Car First spin demonstrated at Spring 2026 Design Day. [project →]
🎈	Autonomous Blimp Robot — micro-ROS firmware, 6-DOF Lagrangian dynamics, EHGO disturbance rejection, RPi CM4 + Teensy avionics [project →]
🏎️	LiDAR Opponent Localization — RANSAC + ICP sensor-fusion refinement for IAC autonomous racing [project →]

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$ cat tech_stack.json

Firmware & Embedded

Robotics & Autonomy

Hardware & Tools

Dev

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_{I work best at the boundary between EE, mechanical, and software — that's where the real problems live.
If you're working on motor control, autonomous systems, or anything where firmware and dynamics collide — let's talk.}