Nikhil PS is a Controls Engineer specializing in hardware technology at Apple since June 2024. Prior to this role, Nikhil served as a Graduate Student at the University of California, Berkeley, focusing on control systems from August 2019 to August 2024. Nikhil has also gained experience as a Servo Engineer at Western Digital during the summer of 2023 and worked as a Graduate Student Instructor and Grader at the University of Michigan in early 2017. Nikhil holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, as well as a Master of Science in Engineering from the University of Michigan and a Bachelor of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. In 2022, Nikhil participated in a Robotics Summer School at Syddansk Universitet - University of Southern Denmark.