Hi, I'm Zach

Aerospace Engineer & Computer Scientist

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About Me

Multi-faceted engineer with diverse skillsets. Studied at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo

Dual Major Computer Science
Aerospace Engineering
3.6 GPA
2022 Graduated

Education

Aerospace

Structures

Attitude, Dynamics & Control

Orbital Mechanics

Propulsion

Fluid Dynamics

Electrical Systems

Spacecraft Design

Space Environment

Programming

Python

Computer Vision

C

Natural Language Processing

Java

Artificial Intelligence

HTML/CSS/JS

Virtual Reality

Projects

Two-Stage
Rocket

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Two-Stage
Rocket

  • Designed a rocket to seperate at 150ft. before reaching a maximum altitude of 400 ft.

  • Implemented an autonomous parachute system that deployed after reaching the trajectories zenith.

  • Lead a team through the design and manufacturing process. Integrated instrumentation to gather data.

Autonomous
Car

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Autonomous
Car

  • Integrated a sensor system to determine distance between car and objects.

  • Implemented C++ software to communicate between servos, sensors and motors.

  • Applied Kalman filter to determine accurate distances.

  • Used distance data to determine speed and path of vehicle as well as for performing obstacle avoidance.

A.I.
Planetary Lander

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A.I.
Planetary Lander

  • Developed model-free reinforcement learning (Q-learning) algorithm.

  • Utilized an ε-Greedy selection method to choose actions leading to successor states.

  • Simulated landing on numerous celestial bodies using algorithm.

Text
Classification

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Text Classification

  • Accurately determined the topic and author of a given's text.

  • Performed part of speech tagging, structure metric analysis, and bigram creation on given text.

  • Created features from part of speech usage, writing structure and phrases used.

  • Cleaned text through stemming, lemmatization and punctuation removal

  • Obtained a frequency distribution of words in text. Created features from lemmas of the common words' sysnsets and hypernyms.

  • Naive Bayes machine learning method performed on extracted features.

Some of my Favorite Projects

Spacecraft Design

Developed Spacecraft System to Reach and Identify Interstellar Objects akin to 1I/'Oumuamua and 2I/Borisov

ConOps PDR

Virtual Reality Labyrinth

Created VR game within which player works to reach the end of a Labyrinth. Implemented patrolling enemies, bow combat, and teleportation

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Contact Me

Call Me

425-449-9676

Email

ZachLofquist@gmail.com

Location

Seattle, Washington