Rishabh Goel
PhD Candidate in Robotics
Robotics PhD candidate at Georgia Tech with expertise in embedded systems, battery-free computing, soft actuators, and hardware prototyping. Research spans energy-harvesting UAVs, wearable health sensing, and machine learning for failure detection.
Featured Projects
Experience
PhD Research Intern
2025 Dolby Laboratories ATG · San Francisco, CA
- Developed an acoustic sensing technique to extract heartbeats using only the speakers and microphones on Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses
Research Assistant
2022 - Present Georgia Institute of Technology · Atlanta, GA
- Published in Nature Scientific Reports on a battery-free, solar-powered fixed-wing UAV
- Developed an ML algorithm to detect failure in soft actuators (in review at Nature Communications)
- Designed HealthHub, a wearable health prototyping platform, published at IEEE BSN 2024
- Created PuffEM, an e-cigarette sleeve for estimating nicotine intake, presented at IEEE CHASE 2025
- Designed hardware and electronics for Protean, a heterogeneous battery-free computing platform, published at ACM SenSys 2022
Education
Georgia Institute of Technology
2022 - Present PhD in Robotics · Atlanta, GA
University of Michigan
2017 - 2021 B.S.E. in Electrical Engineering & B.S.E. in Computer Science · Ann Arbor, MI
Skills
Languages
PythonC++CMATLAB
ML & Data
PyTorchModel TrainingData PipelinesFeature Extraction
Hardware & Electronics
PCB DesignAltiumEagleKiCadSMD SolderingReflow Soldering
Embedded Systems
MicrocontrollersFPGASensor FusionBattery-Free Systems
Patents
Batteryless Fixed-Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
2025 submitted
Battery-free unmanned aerial vehicle
2023 Active US20230391479A1
Entrepreneurship
- Finalist for Sustain X Presentation competition
- Invited to the highly selective Create X Startup launch summer program
- Demoed and pitched prototype and startup at Demo Day to 2000 attendees
Awards
- 2nd Place for Create X Idea to Prototype showcase
- Finalist for Sustain X Pitch competition for sustainability-focused startups
- Selected for Create X Summer Program
- 3rd best Solar car in the world - World Solar Challenge, Australia 2019
- Best Solar Car in America and 2nd best in the world - American Solar Car Race 2018