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General Information

Full Name Marcus Chen I Wada
Email wadamc@umich.edu
GitHub @wadamcI
Location Dearborn, MI, USA

Education

  • 27'
    B.S. in Computer Engineering
    University of Michigan–Dearborn, Dearborn, MI
    • GPA ~3.97

Experience

  • Aug 2023 – Pres.
    Research Assistant, Power Lab
    University of Michigan–Dearborn
    • Built outage-analytics pipelines and interactive dashboards (PostGIS, Leaflet, Node/Express).
    • Developed a GPU/HPC workflow (SLURM) to accelerate control simulations and data processing.
    • Modeled plants and designed full-state feedback controllers for distributed energy systems.
    • Integrated an LLM assistant to make outage data exploration more accessible.
  • Aug 2023 – Pres.
    Airbrakes Lead
    Michigan Aeronautical Science Association (MASA)
    • Led closed-loop airbrake control design for IREC 2025; coordinated controls, CFD, and HIL testing.
    • Implemented Python-based flight visualization GUI; supported SAC 2024 prep and analysis.
  • Jul 2024 – Pres.
    Supplemental Instructor — General Chemistry & Calculus
    University of Michigan–Dearborn
    • Led peer-learning sessions and authored review worksheets aligned with course outcomes.
  • Aug 2023 – Pres.
    Treasurer
    Math Club, UM-Dearborn
    • Secured $2,000+ in funding for competitions and talks; organized weekly Putnam prep.
  • Jun 2019
    Coffee Quality Grader & Spectrophotometer Technician
    Blossom Valley Coffee, Taichung, Taiwan
    • Calibrated Agtron spectrophotometers; conducted cupping and quality assessments.

Projects

  • 2024 – Pres.
    NODE — Neighborhood Outage Dialogue Engine
    • Web app for outage–weather–socioeconomic exploration (Leaflet + PostGIS + LLM).
    • Time filtering, clustering, and report generation; built API and data pipelines.
  • 2024 – Pres.
    Airbrakes Controls and Fault detection System
    • STM32/Teensy avionics with Kalman-based altitude/acceleration estimation.
    • HIL/SIL testbeds connecting sensors (IMU, barometer) to control loops.
  • 2024
    Flight Visualization GUI
    • Python GUI to visualize trajectories and flight parameters for SAC 2024 teams.

Skills

  • Controls & Embedded
    • MATLAB/Simulink, Kalman, LQR/PID, HIL/SIL
    • STM32, Teensy, Arduino
  • Software & Data
    • Python, C/C++, SQL, JavaScript, LaTeX
    • PostGIS, Node/Express, Jupyter, PyCharm/VS Code
  • Collaboration
    • Git/GitHub, technical writing, worksheets & tutoring

Honors and Awards

  • 2022 – Pres.
    • Emerging Scholar 2025
    • 4th Place Lower Michigan Math Competition

Languages

  • English (Fluent), Portuguese (Fluent), Mandarin (Conversational), Spanish (Intermediate), French (Intermediate)

Academic Interests

  • Power & Grid Analytics
    • Outage modeling, resilience, spatial data systems
  • Controls & Aerospace
    • State estimation, guidance & actuation, HIL validation
  • Data Systems
    • PostGIS pipelines, interactive visualization, LLM interfaces