Jennifer Humanchuk

Jennifer Humanchuk has a diverse work experience beginning in 2016. Jennifer started as an Engineering Intern at Molten Metal Equipment Innovations, where they drafted project quotes and proposal drawings in Solidworks for customers, researched oxidation rates of graphite samples and thermal expansion rates of refractory brands through standardized tests, and conducted tests and analyzed data as part of the development of a new circulation pump system. In 2018, they became an Electrical Engineering Intern at Northrop Grumman, supporting integration and test of airborne radar receiver exciter through a MATLAB interface, performing circuit simulation to process radar surveillance data from an Airborne Warning and Control System aircraft, and completing and documenting worst case analysis of a final circuit board design to be presented to the customer. In 2019, they became a Student Research Assistant at The Ohio State University Center for Automotive Research, where they investigated statistical approaches to improve an existing Ford model to predict road load, performed regression analysis using MATLAB to better predict discrepancies between lab and track measured values of road load, and investigated derivative-free optimization strategies to improve existing models. In 2020, they became a Student Research Assistant at the ElectroScience Laboratory, where they built a Matlab GUI with a network analyzer and Fanuc robotic arm to characterize gain of micro-antennas, and created models and animations of reconfigurable antenna arrays for research proposals. In 2021, they became a Biped Lab Student Research Assistant at the University of Michigan, where they implemented an angular momentum based predictive controller to improve bipedal locomotion capability using Agility Robotics’ Digit robot, and translated and improved MATLAB/Simulink code on the Cassie robot to C++ on Digit. Finally, in 2022, they became a Software Engineer at Agility Robotics.

Jennifer Humanchuk attended The Ohio State University from 2016 to 2020, where they earned a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and a Humanitarian Engineering Minor. Jennifer then went on to pursue a Master's degree in Robotics at the University of Michigan, which they are expected to complete in 2022.