Evan
Girard–Sun.

I’m an engineering student at Rice University with an interest in robotics. I like working across the hardware and software of a system, then testing how it behaves in practice. My own projects include FireWatch, a drone-mounted fire detector. For FRC, I designed the robot’s complete mechanical assembly in CAD and directed its manufacturing.

I previously interned with NASA’s ER4 robotics group, where I contributed to lunar vehicle chassis revisions and processed ROS odometry data for a RealSense camera project. I now research camera-based drone control at Rice’s Phi Lab, using an analog video feed processed on a laptop. I’m interested in internships involving robotics or embedded hardware.