Ravi Patel

Ravi Patel has extensive experience in hardware engineering. Ravi started their career at Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems as a Systems Engineer from 2005 to 2007. Ravi then joined Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems as an Electrical Engineer, specializing in hardware design for satellite programs, from 2007 to 2014. After that, they worked at HTx Services (formerly Citibank) as an Electrical Engineer for a brief period in 2014-2015. Ravi then joined DAQRI as an R&D Hardware Engineer, where they led the design of wearable brain-computer interface hardware for AR and VR from 2015 to 2016. Following this, they worked at Faraday Future as a Senior Electrical Engineer, focusing on electrical system architecture and circuit analysis for prototype vehicles, from 2016 to 2017. Currently, Ravi Patel is the Director of Hardware Engineering at Emerge, responsible for architecting, designing, building, and testing the hardware of a consumer product that enhances the sensation of touch in mid-air for AR, VR, and MR.

Ravi Patel completed their Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering (double major) at UC Irvine from 1999 to 2004. Ravi then pursued a Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering at UCLA from 2004 to 2005.