Rupak Poddar

Research Assistant

University of Massachusetts / UMass Amherst•  January 2022 - Present

• Develop research hardware/software for behavioral neuroscience experiments • Test mice behavior using Raspberry Pi & Arduino with Python Pygame based touchscreen behavioral system • Assist in developing the user interface, data gathering, wireless integration, and general streamlining

Teaching Assistant

University of Massachusetts / UMass Amherst•  September 2022 - December 2022

ECE 371: Intro to Security Engineering • Drafted and graded all biweekly quizzes and exams • Devised lab activities to provide hands-on experience with encryption and key exchange algorithms like DES, AES, and RSA to the students • Conducted office hours to help students set up the Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs)

Software Intern

Sonos•  June 2022 - August 2022

• Implemented a history pane in an internal testing tool using Flutter & Dart; made dashboards in Tableau • Assisted in bug fixing and new feature add-ons to the internal testing tool • Worked as a QA personnel to ensure that the testing tool complies with the established quality standards

Research Intern

University of Massachusetts / UMass Amherst•  September 2021 - May 2022

• Designed and deployed highly power efficient mobile AQI monitoring units on public vehicles • Incorporated custom SMT PCB for ESP8266 with IFTTT Webhooks to collect real-time AQI data • Communicated weekly progress reports to the principal investigator

Teaching Intern

University of Massachusetts / UMass Amherst•  May 2020 - August 2020

• Developed graphical frontend and backend system with Python, ESP8266, and Raspberry Pi to control a UROV • Published a custom Arduino library to manipulate data in Firebase Realtime Database using REST API • Designed programming activities & presentations to introduce Arduino to the participant interns