Nathan Petersen
Founder CEO at Activate
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolNathan Petersen is a founder and CEO with nine years of engineering experience who recently completed a PhD in Electrical Engineering focused on high-performance control and design for bearingless (levitating) motor technology. He combines deep academic research from UW–Madison with hands-on industry experience building motor control firmware and sensorless algorithms at companies including Tesla and Beta Technologies. Now leading Motibera, he’s commercializing levitating electric motors—an uncommon intersection of embedded controls, power electronics, and novel electromagnetic design. An Activate Fellow, Nathan blends startup-building skills with lab-scale innovation and a track record of shipping embedded systems from research prototypes to production-grade motor drives.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical Engineering at University of Wisconsin-Madison
English, French
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Github Skills (41)
garmin10
circuit10
verilog10
mach10
controlling10
hardware10
vlsi9
eda9
bootstrapping9
esphome9
embedded9
modeling8
sphinx8
python8
bitrix8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
npetersen2/npetersen2
Jul 2020 - Feb 2025
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
Severson-Group/AMDC-Hardware
May 2018 - Dec 2022
Circuit board designs for controlling advanced motor systems
Contributions:3 releases, 101 reviews, 246 commits in 4 years 8 months
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