Rod Bayliss
Graduate Research Assistant And Hertz Fellow
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRod Bayliss is a Ph.D. power electronics researcher and Hertz Fellow at UC Berkeley with nine years of hands-on experience designing high-efficiency, high-power systems spanning multilevel and hybrid switched-capacitor converters. His background blends rigorous academic research at MIT and Berkeley with industry internships at Tesla, SpaceX, and Apple, where he applied power-electronics and diagnostics expertise to vehicle inverters, RF inductors, and system-level thermal and power testing. He has built practical hardware for high-frequency, high-current applications—from traction inverters for MIT Motorsports to diagnostic platforms for Mac hardware—demonstrating an ability to move concepts into manufacturable systems. Based in the Bay Area, he combines deep device-level knowledge with real-world product experience and a talent for multidisciplinary collaboration across electrical, software, and mechanical domains.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical and Electronics Engineering Power Electronics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical and Electronics Engineering Power Electronics at University of California, BerkeleyMasters of Engineering (MEng) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Masters of Engineering (MEng) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyHigh School, High School at Westminster Schools of Augusta
Github Skills (2)
packing4
c-library2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
wiresboy/6.111-Minesweeper
Nov 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:46 commits in 26 days
Swissking1/Rod-Portfolio
Jan 2018 - Feb 2025
Code for Rod Bayliss' Portfolio
Contributions:29 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 2 months
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