Summary
Erk 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 Barbara
Francis Parker School
Chinese