Tara Saxena

Mechanical Engineering & Robotics @ Northwestern University

Role
Systems Integration Intern at Zoox
Location
San Francisco, CA, US
LinkedIn followers
500 followers
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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

  1. Systems Integration Intern

    Zoox

    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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