Rachel Harris
Controls Engineering Team Lead at Dephy, Inc.
Maynard, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRachel Harris is a Controls Engineering Team Lead with 12 years of experience designing and shipping control systems for prosthetics and exoskeletons, currently leading technical planning and code quality at Dephy. She holds an MS in Robotics from the University of Michigan and a BS in Aerospace Engineering from MIT, and specializes in kinematics, dynamics, and machine-learning-informed control for wearable robotics. Rachel has hands-on experience across the stack—algorithm development, sensor data analysis, PCB and electronics design, and rapid prototyping—demonstrated by her motion controller for a variable-stiffness prosthetic ankle and gait-assist algorithms for an ankle exoskeleton. Her background spans industry and research internships at Intel, Northrop Grumman, Insitu, and labs at MIT and Michigan, giving her an unusual blend of aerospace systems thinking and bio-robotics intuition. Colleagues rely on her both as a technical mentor and as a pragmatic systems integrator who keeps codebases clean while driving product-level performance in real-world locomotion tasks.
11 years of coding experience
Master of Science - MS, Robotics, 3.76/4.0, Master of Science - MS, Robotics, 3.76/4.0 at University of Michigan - Rackham Graduate SchoolBachelor of Science (B.S.), Aerospace Engineering, 4.4/5.0, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Aerospace Engineering, 4.4/5.0 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (5)
actuator10
matlab8
simulink8
cpp6
python6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
DephyInc/Controls_Technical_Interview
Jul 2024 - Jul 2024
Contributions:3 PRs in 1 day
DephyInc/Actuator-Package
May 2021 - Oct 2021
Dephy Python API
Contributions:11 commits, 5 pushes, 6 branches in 5 months
pythoncppmatlabsimulinkprograms
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