Ishan Deshpande
Undergraduate Research Assistant For SysML Research Group
Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolIshan Deshpande is an ECE integrated M.S. candidate at UT Austin with eight years of hands-on experience building embedded systems, firmware, and control software across aerospace, automotive, and robotics domains. He currently researches energy attribution for serverless functions while teaching operating systems and leading firmware and platform efforts for Longhorn Racing Solar, where he developed a custom UART/CAN bootloader and a USB-C PD power-supply PCB. Past internships at Tesla, Garmin, and EnergyX show a pattern of improving reliability and testability—introducing static analysis tooling, CAN logging for EEPROM usage, and SIL/HIL simulations. Comfortable in low-level C/ARM work, RTOS contexts, and Python testing frameworks, he also brings leadership experience managing teams and mentoring students from high school robotics to university labs. Unusually for someone focused on firmware, he balances research-grade ML-aware robotics work (PyTorch/IsaacGym) with production-oriented engineering, making him adept at translating advanced models into reliable embedded systems.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree w/ Integrated Masters Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor's Degree w/ Integrated Masters Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at AustinHigh School Diploma International Baccalaureate, High School Diploma International Baccalaureate at Westwood High School
Github Skills (16)
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battery7
simulation7
dashboard7
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risc-v5
arm5
hub4
iot4
embedded4
renode4
security4
subsystem3
codebase1
leaf1
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
lhr-solar/StarterProjects
Sep 2021 - Aug 2022
Contributions:20 reviews, 15 commits, 18 PRs in 11 months
subsystemfor-each
lhr-solar/Embedded-Sharepoint
Apr 2023 - Mar 2025
This repository contains files that can be shared among us, the embedded design teams.
Contributions:120 reviews, 37 PRs, 113 pushes in 1 year 11 months
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