Rojan Kashani

SPACE AT BERKELEY

Co-Founder & Team Lead | Sep 2023 – Present

Led the URSA project as part of the NASA SUITS Challenge
Managed team of 30 members, advancing as one of 11 teams nationally to design innovative AR solutions for astronaut workflows.
Secured funding from UC Berkeley and LBNL, establishing a dedicated lab space.
Presented at Johnson Space Center to 100+ attendees and NASA panel.

URSA: LLM-Driven Immersive Augmented Reality User Interface for Robotics and Space Exploration

C Python AR LLMs NLP Neural Networks Digital Twin Tracking

Developed a voice-controlled AR interface using Microsoft Hololens and Gorilla LLM.
Can process 20+ unique voice commands and provide real-time astronaut monitoring using simulated biometric data.
Fine-tuned YOLOv8 and trained DTTDNet with synthetic + real frames.
Conducted Hololens usability testing to optimize astronaut workflows.

CLASS PROJECTS

SIXT33N

Built a machine-learning-powered, dual-motor voice-controlled car using PCA/SVD and Farsi slang commands. Designed band-pass filters and implemented feedback loops for path correction.

RISC-V CPU

Constructed a two-stage pipelined CPU in Logism with instruction-level hazard handling, binary instruction encoding, and robust control logic.

RISC-V NeuralNet

Implemented a handwritten digit classifier trained on MNIST. Supported file I/O, matrix operations, and multiple activation functions.
"Convolute is what I do on exams, convolve is what you do on exams." - Prof. Babak Ayazifar

MathLib

Wrote a SIMD and OpenMP-optimized matrix and convolution library in C, achieving a 2000x speedup through multi-threading, loop unrolling, and cache-aware design.

BYOW (Build Your Own World)

Created a scalable pseudorandom tile-based world exploration engine with a timed interactive final challenge to be crowned king.
"I'm the king of the world!" - Leo Decap(NOT decoupling capacitors)rio

NGordnet

Coded an interactive word frequency (NGram) and semantic (WordNet) analyzer in Java using scalable, efficient data structures to support real-time queries on 50M+ word instances.

Interpreter

Wrote a subset Scheme interpreter in Python. Handled dynamic scoping, special forms, and nested procedures.

Regulus

Developed an end-to-end encrypted file sharing system in Go using IND-CPA-secure encryption, MACs, signatures, and revocable access control.
"[REGU]lated [LU]nar [S]torage" - Caltopia Cloud Services (CCS)

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