Tara Saxena
Mechanical Engineering & Robotics @ Northwestern University
- Role
- Systems Integration Intern at Zoox
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Tara Saxena
Fourth-year BS/MS student studying Mechanical Engineering with a robotics concentration at Northwestern University. Extensive hands-on experience through scientific research, industry internships, and engineering extracurriculars: Devised a novel robotic patient introducer design for surgical endoscopy, addressing robot-physician-patient workflow limitations and safety regulations, using FEA, SOLIDWORKS, and FDM/SLA 3D Printing Developed wearable haptic bi-stable actuators arrays for physical therapy sensory substitution applications, utilizing electronics design skills, Julia, and materials science to optimize device fabrication and experimental inform data analysis Designed an PID-controlled pressure inflation system for a soft tactile sensor to investigate the effectiveness of active pressure control in robot learning Specialties: Robotics Research & Development, Haptic Devices, Medical Robotics, Mechatronics, Space Systems Engineering, Rapid Prototyping, and Project Leadership Contact me: t••••••••@u.northwestern.edu
Experience
Systems Integration Intern
Jun 2025 — Present
Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) Team
Education
Caltech
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Controls and Dynamical Systems
Northwestern University
Master of Science - MS, Mechanical Engineering
Northwestern University
Bachelor of Science - BS, Mechanical Engineering (Robotics Concentration)
The Nueva School
High School Diploma
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