Jacopo Di Prato

Experience

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  Nittany Motorsports

  Aug 2022 - now

  Leading a team of 10 students to develop a BMS for an EV Formula SAE car. Leading a team of 7 students to develop OTA updates to SMT32 microcontroller. Built a test bench consisting of 2 microcontrollers for software validation. Wrote basic CAN communication program between two ARM Cortex-M4 microcontrollers as well as wrote firmware to communicate brakes analog data to vehicle’s CAN bus.Led a team of 2 members to successfully develop the car’s dashboard CAN communication protocol.

  • High Voltage Battery Management System (BMS) Project Lead

    Aug 2024 - now

  • Over-The-Air (OTA) Bootloader Project Lead

    Aug 2023 - Jul 2024

  • Embedded Systems Project Member

    Aug 2022 - Aug 2023
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  Penn State Advanced Vehicle Team

  Jan 2023 - May 2023

  Object Detection Team Member

  Researched wireless vehicle charging using inductive charging coils embedded in major roadways to solve the lack of infrastructure to charge electric vehicles

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  HUB Parking Technology

  Jun 2023 - Aug 2023

  Software Developer Intern

  Developed a website to display the catalog of the company’s parts in storage to allow technicians to easily access a part’s image and serial number to reorder it if broken.Developed front-end UI and UX as well as implemented web APIs to perform CRUD operations.

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  Penn State University

  Jan 2024 - now

  Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

  Assisting the teaching of an introductory Computer Science course (CMPSC 132 – Programming and Computation II: Data Structures and Algorithms) of 500+ students

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  Edge AI

  May 2024 - Aug 2024

  Software Engineer Intern

  Developed firmware for PipeDream® robot system.