Erk Sampat
Electrical Design Engineer, Starshield at Biomimetic Circuits and Nanosystems Group
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolErk Sampat is an electrical design engineer and soon-to-be SpaceX Starshield team member with nine years of hands-on experience spanning mixed-signal circuits, power electronics, and embedded systems. A final-year UCSB EE student pursuing PhD-level research in mixed-signal design, he pairs academic work on CMOS LDO compensation with practical lab and industry experience building radiation-test hardware, GaN load-stepping boards, and automated test scripts. Known for rapid debugging and system-level thinking, Erk has delivered flight-relevant protections and telemetry designs at Astranis and supported experimental physics labs at UCSB. Outside of formal roles he builds and flies RC aircraft, applying iterative prototyping to improve reliability and efficiency—an interest that often surfaces in his personal projects.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering at UC Santa BarbaraSAT: 1560 (April 2021)
GPA: 4.3
Courses:
AP Physics 1
AP Physics 2
AP Physics C: Mechanics
AP Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism
AP Computer Science A
AP Chemistry
AP Biology
AP English Language and Composition
AP Calculus AB/BC
AP Chinese Language and Culture
AP Statistics
Organic Chemistry
Multivariate Calculus and Linear Algebra, SAT: 1560 (April 2021)
GPA: 4.3
Courses:
AP Physics 1
AP Physics 2
AP Physics C: Mechanics
AP Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism
AP Computer Science A
AP Chemistry
AP Biology
AP English Language and Composition
AP Calculus AB/BC
AP Chinese Language and Culture
AP Statistics
Organic Chemistry
Multivariate Calculus and Linear Algebra at Francis Parker School
Chinese
Github Skills (7)
drones10
px410
autopilot10
ros10
mavlink10
qgroundcontrol9
firmware5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
SAR-mango/SinESC
Sep 2020 - Jan 2022
SinESC brings sensorless field-oriented motor control to the RC drone and fixed-wing communities without common downsides.
Contributions:2 releases, 159 commits, 140 pushes in 1 year 4 months
SAR-mango/eApprox
Dec 2022 - Nov 2024
Contributions:36 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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