Mateo Mariscal — Hardware engineer and roboticist

Recent work

Designed and managed accelerated life test stands that evaluated virtually every assembly of Stretch, which was instrumental in ensuring the robustness and reliability of the robot.
Developed custom manufacturing automation stands to accelerate the most painful parts of the robot production process.

Redesigned structural components of the linkage mechanism in the active seat for enhanced functionality (integration of electronic fore-aft adjustment) and better packaging.
Developed new features for the active seat control algorithm.
Created a GUI for data collection and processing for a vehicle motion study.

2016 – 2020
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science, with a concentration in Economics. GPA 4.9 / 5.0.
2012 – 2016
Cambridge Rindge and Latin School & Harvard University

Went to high school at CRLS and dual-enrolled in courses at Harvard.

2017
Primus Power

Created a testing platform for accelerated life durability tests of zinc bromine flow battery components. The platform included a variety of sensors and controls for creating worst-case environments (like 100% SOC bromine). Simulated in LabVIEW.
2017
INSIA

Used Simulink to interface CarSim and AVL Cruise and co-simulate electric vehicle tests. Built vehicle dynamics simulations for rolling resistance, brake force distribution, slip angle and vehicle forces. Validated models against real test data and implemented a PID controller for dynamic gain adjustment and error reduction.
2016 – 2017
MIT Media Lab, Changing Places

Co-developed, designed and 3D-modeled an autonomous platform for personal transportation with simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). Fabricated the Persuasive Electric Vehicle (PEV), an autonomous tricycle for intra-city transportation.
2016
MIT Center for Bits and Atoms

Assistant shop supervisor, trained on the water jet cutter, CNC ShopBot, 4-axis mill, laser cutter, PCB mill, sandblaster and MIG welder. Built an electric skateboard, a knife and a cabinet, among other side projects, to learn the machines.
2014 – 2015
Harvard Center for Astrophysics

Devised a voltage controller with a touchscreen interface, currently fielded at the Submillimeter Array.

Ice and roller skating: Roller skating the NYC streets, or on the ice playing hockey.
English, Spanish, Portuguese: I speak English. Hablo español. Falo português.
Boarding sports: Snowboarding, wakeboarding, kitesurfing, surfing.
Volleyball: Indoor and beach.