# Kunal Kaushik

Official portfolio: https://kunalkaushik.vercel.app/

I'm Kunal, an electrical engineering student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. I build robots, embedded systems, and computer vision tools.

Age: 18
Education: B.S. Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2026 — 2030)
Interests: Embedded, Controls, Sensing, Mechatronics
Current book: Steve Jobs — Walter Isaacson
Song of the day: Memory Box — Peter Cat Recording Co.
Listen: https://open.spotify.com/track/6C5xm2roWdAIda9WJmu1jG
Email: kunalkaushik537@gmail.com
GitHub: https://github.com/kunalk537
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kunalkaushik537
Resume: https://kunalkaushik.vercel.app/Kunal%20Kaushik%20-%20Resume.pdf

## Projects

- FSAE [Coming soon]: More on this work soon.
- NMbL lab with Professor Yim [Coming soon]: More on this work soon.
- Open-source BLDC motor driver [Coming soon]: A closer look at the design and development is coming soon.
- Self-balancing humanoid: Exploring two-axis stabilization with reaction wheels, IMU feedback, and custom drivetrains. Dual reaction wheels · ODrive motor control over CAN
- AR ski goggle electronics: Designed a compact ESP32 board to bring motion sensing and an OLED display into ski goggles. 4-layer PCB · IMU + OLED over I2C
- FTC competition robot: Designed and built a competition robot with custom mechanisms, odometry, and vision-guided alignment. 5,000+ part assembly · CNC + 3D-printed components
- Motor driver & sensor board: Built an ESP32 breakout board that brings motor control, servo connections, and motion sensing together. Custom 4-layer PCB · H-bridge + 9-axis IMU
- Wafer alignment detection: Trained a computer vision model to identify misaligned semiconductor wafers from microscope images. 0.95 F1 score · 1,600-image augmented dataset

## More information

- https://kunalkaushik.vercel.app/ai/: plain-text portfolio overview
- https://kunalkaushik.vercel.app/llms-full.txt: full project descriptions and media paths

Coming-soon entries are placeholders. They do not claim completed work or measured results. Project metrics are self-reported by the portfolio owner.