Asser Abdelgawad

Embedded systems

Experience

Internships
TeslaSep 2024 — Dec 2024
Low Voltage Test & Automation Intern
  • Trained a ResNet/OpenCV model to detect vehicle features (99.01% accuracy) for production checks.
TeslaMay 2024 — Aug 2024
Electronics Design Engineering Intern
  • Owned MCU signal‑flow architecture for a next‑gen high‑volume Supercharger main controller PCB.
  • Designed logic circuits in Altium and a high‑voltage interrupt loop with timing analysis.
  • Ran signal‑integrity tests on 1000BASE‑T1 PAM3 Ethernet by measuring packet error rates on Linux SoC.
Kepler CommunicationsSep 2023 — Apr 2024
Power Systems Engineering Intern
  • Verified BMS safety logic, control loops, UART buses, and cell monitoring in a HIL suite (TI MSP430).
PulsenicsJun 2023 — Sep 2023
Firmware QA Intern
  • Verified data acquisition by writing ISRs in C for sensor qualification and ADC configuration.
  • Designed a PoE switch for 1000BASE‑T Ethernet packet communications.

Projects

Software‑In‑The‑LoopMar 2025
Custom SIL Environment
  • Simulated signals to/from an automotive sensor over SPI for a bare‑metal ARM system.
  • Tested with GTest (graceful exits, bus failures, noise filtering).
Embedded / RTOSJan–Feb 2025
Smart Home Security System
  • Processed Doppler + ultrasonic radar sensor inputs using FreeRTOS tasks/queues.
  • Layered atop a custom Vivado hardware platform for a Xilinx SoC.
Signal ProcessingMay–Aug 2022
Biomedical Imaging Software Research
  • Implemented algorithms to deconvolve thermal images; published in a journal (impact factor 14.7).
NLP / MLJan 2022
Amazon Customer Review Analyzer (Hackathon Finalist)
  • Used Word2Vec to analyze reviews for product performance signals.
C++Nov 2019 — Jan 2020
Plastania Video Game
  • Built an Angry Birds‑style game in C++ using Allegro and OOP.