Semiconductor Fabrication 101
Purdue University, UT Austin & Intel Corporation
Aug 3, 2026
Completed the Purdue University, University of Texas at Austin, and Intel Corporation sponsored Semiconductor Fabrication 101 course.
CPEN Honors · Texas A&M
Sphoorthi
Gurram
Engineer
Building autonomous robots, designing power electronics, and bridging hardware with intelligence.
230+
Team members led
Across robotics and power electronics orgs
125+
Students tutored
Reaching 25 countries
~96%
EV charger efficiency
1 kW bidirectional design
Top 4.89%
National speech & debate
National Degree of Distinction
Gallery
Work in motion
A continuous reel from the lab, the pool deck, and the presentation floor.
Featured Work
Selected projects
A few builds from Team Electra, WIRED, EDEN, and the lab. Open a card for diagrams, docs, and details.
Credentials
Certifications
Courses and credentials in semiconductor fabrication, wireless systems, and CAD.
Wireless, Microwave, and Communications Engineering
SMARTHub · Spectrum Sizzle Workshop
Jun 14, 2026
Completed the Spectrum Sizzle Workshop covering spectrum policy, passive systems, communication system design, microwave circuits, and radar technology.
Trajectory
Experience
Leadership and research roles across power electronics, robotics, and applied research.
- Lead the electrical design of a 1 kW bi-directional EV charger from topology selection to board bring-up.
- Own the GaN totem-pole PFC and Dual Active Bridge stages, reaching ~96% efficiency and ~0.99 power factor.
- Coordinate schematic reviews, LTSpice validation, and Altium layout across the technical subteam.
Power ElectronicsAltiumLTSpice
- Build EDEN's interaction stack: personality, long-term memory, and messaging tied to face recognition via computer vision.
- Prototype lab-safety enforcement in the browser 3D simulator with Three.js / React Three Fiber and YOLO perception.
- Design power distribution and ROS 2 interfaces toward the physical humanoid platform.
Three.jsROS 2Computer VisionLLM
- Direct a 40+ member team building the autonomous underwater vehicle “Swim Shady”.
- Designed custom Altium PCBs with boost converters delivering 24 V and 18 V rails.
- Integrated Jetson Nano compute, 8× T200 thrusters, and Teledyne DVL navigation.
LeadershipPCB DesignSensor Fusion
- Develop an off-grid concentrating solar furnace with microprocessor two-axis sun tracking.
- Model thermal performance in MATLAB / Simulink and validate against multi-channel DAQ data.
MATLABResearchInstrumentation
- Collected and cleaned conflict and governance datasets supporting ongoing political science research.
- Ran statistical analysis in R and summarized findings for lab reviews.
RData Analysis
- Tutored 125+ students across 25 countries in algebra, precalculus, and calculus.
- Organized bootcamp cohorts and coordinated volunteer tutors across time zones.
TeachingCommunity
Supporting portfolio
Certification & Feedback Portfolio
Teaching certifications and learner feedback from Schoolhouse.world.
Toolkit
Skills & technologies
From board-level design and embedded firmware to perception models and simulation.
Engineering & Hardware
Altium DesignerLTSpiceFusion360SolidWorksAutoCADMATLAB / SimulinkPCB DesignPower ElectronicsEmbedded Systems
Software & Robotics
PythonC++ROS 2RLinux (Ubuntu)GitPLC LogicSensor FusionMicroprocessors
Data & AI
Computer VisionYOLODeep RLSim2RealNumPy / PandasMatplotlibDAQLLM IntegrationPrompt Engineering
Languages
EnglishSpanishTeluguHindi
About
Where hardware meets software
I'm a Computer Engineering Honors student at Texas A&M University. My work sits at the seam between physical power and machine reasoning: one week I'm tuning a GaN totem-pole PFC stage for a bidirectional EV charger, the next I'm writing a LIDAR raycast engine so a humanoid robot can understand a room.
That range is deliberate. Efficient converters, clean PCB layouts, and reliable power rails are what let intelligent systems actually leave the simulator. I care about the full chain — from a boost converter feeding an 18 V rail on an underwater vehicle to the vision model deciding where it should swim next.
Leadership came with the engineering. I direct a 40+ member autonomous underwater vehicle team, lead the technical side of Team Electra, and have taught 125+ students across 25 countries through Schoolhouse.world. Before all of that, competitive speech and debate taught me to make hard ideas land — I finished in the top 4.89% nationally and earned the National Degree of Distinction.
Focus
Power electronics & robotics
Based in
College Station, TX
Languages
EN · ES · TE · HI
Contact
Let's build something that runs on real current
Open to research, internships, and hardware collaborations. The fastest way to reach me is email.
gurramsphoorthi@gmail.com
in/sphoorthi-gurram
GitHub
sphoorthigurram
Location
College Station, TX