Hi, I'm Amy. I build hardware that ships.
I design, bring up and verify hardware: mixed-signal PCBs, avionics display electronics, FPGA logic and the embedded firmware that ties it together.
Harvey Mudd College, B.S. Engineering (ECE), expected May 2027 · San Jose, CA
Experience
Click a card for photos and detailsRTX Collins Aerospace
Hardware design, bring-up, verification and qualification for avionics display control panels. Helped take six panels through final production release to the customer.
Read moreHRL Laboratories
Replacing a custom timed processor in a Xilinx RFSoC qubit controller with a standard RISC-V core so quantum experiments can use standard compilers and toolchains.
Read moreU.S. Department of Agriculture
Developed a next-generation Electrical Penetration Graph (EPG) instrument for studying insect feeding. Final units were validated on three insect species across four lab visits.
Read moreMudd Amateur Rocketry Club
Leading avionics for Harvey Mudd's competition rocketry team, which launches dual-deployment rockets at collegiate competitions. Writing the club's first active-control flight computer firmware.
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Physics of Soft Matter Lab
Studied the physics of latch-mediated spring-actuated systems through experiments and simulation, and automated the lab's recoil-motion analysis.
Read moreSelected projects
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Interactive 2D Physics Engine
A tilt-controlled sand simulator. An FPGA runs the particle physics and drives a 64×64 LED matrix in 12-bit color while an STM32 reads an accelerometer and streams the gravity direction over SPI.
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IoT Temperature Sensor & Web Server
An STM32 reads a DS1722 temperature sensor over a register-level SPI driver I wrote and serves live readings, adjustable resolution and LED control on a web page through an ESP8266.
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Keypad Scanner & Multiplexed Display
FPGA logic in SystemVerilog that scans a 4×4 matrix keypad, debounces it with a state machine, and shows the last two keys on a time-multiplexed dual seven-segment display.
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Let's talk
I'm looking for full-time roles in hardware design, embedded systems and verification starting in 2027.
amyliu01@g.hmc.edu