About Me

I'm a final year Electrical and Electronic Engineering student at Imperial College London. I have a keen interest in power electronics and control systems, having completed many control theory modules during my studies. I also have good knowledge of digital electronics and enjoy working on projects in that field. I about to start a new position at TAIT as a Graduate Controls Engineer.

  • Age: 22
  • Based in: London, UK
  • Languages:English (fluent), Polish (native), German (basic)

In my spare time, I do all things related to technical theatre. During my time at university, I was actively involved in the Imperial College Dramatic Society, holding committee positions since 2020 (including 2021-22 Treasurer and 2022-23 President) and have stage managed, designed lighting for, and acted in over 12 productions.

Education & Experience

Professional Experience

Graduate Controls Engineer

September 2023 - present

TAIT, Haverhill, UK

  • Responsible for the design and implementation of control systems for live events and permanent venue installations.
  • Programming PLCs for controlling variable speed chain hoists in various configurations, desiging and assembling control cabinets.
  • Assembly of rigging prototypes as proof of concept for live events.

Industrial Placement Student

April 2022 - September 2022

UK Atomic Energy Authority, Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, UK

  • Recipient of an IET Power Academy Scholarship.
  • Built on the work done during the first placement to test the new system on spare switchgear.
  • Worked in the JET control room alongside the Power Supplies Operations Engineer (PSOE).
  • Conducted load flow and short circuit analysis on proposed distribution networks for a future fusion power plant.
  • Conducted a cubicle audit, cataloguing contents and matching them to engnineering drawings.

Summer Placement Student

June 2021 - September 2021

UK Atomic Energy Authority, Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, UK

  • Investigated and undestrood the electrical circuit of the poloidal field power supplies of JET.
  • Designed and assembled a position detection system made up of 3 PCBs from scratch.
  • Performed maintenance tasks with experienced staff on high voltage switchgear.
  • Created appropriate technical documentation (reports, drawings, technical specifications etc).
  • Presented results to the Electrical Engineering Department.

Education

MEng Electrical and Electronic Engineering

September 2019 - June 2023

Imperial College London, London, UK

  • Relevant modules: Design of Linear Multivariable Control Systems, Stability and Control of Non-linear Systems, Circuits and Systems, Control System (basic and advanced), Electromagnetism, Power Electronics and Power Systems, Programming for Engineers
  • Dean's List award (top 10%) in Year 1 and 2.
  • Completed German Level 1, 2, and 3 courses (CEFR B1+).

High School

February 2012 - June 2019

Multinational School - Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

  • GCE A-Levels: Maths A*, Physics A*, Chemistry A*, History A

Skills

Quartus Prime

Verilog

Proteus Pro

C++

MATLAB

Power Factory

Office 365

LaTeX

Python

Arduino

Git

GitHub

Projects

Observability of Modes in Power Systems Through Signal Injection

This was an individual final year project analysing the stability of power systems with high penetration of inverters, including how the system poles from a control theory perspective can be obtained using online measurement. The main issue with inverter-based generation is the observed lack of accuracy between supplied models and what is observed in real life.

The project explored the background of inverters, including recent oscillatory events observed on grids around the world and their impact on stability. It proposes online impedance measurement at nodes with inverter-based generation for getting accurate frequency response data. Modelling in MATLAB's Simulink environment is done on single phase and three phase systems to demonstrare the method. A physical implementation of a signal injection device, capable of measuring the impedance spectrum and obtaining approximate system poles, is proposed and the design considerations are discussed.

You can find more info (including the full report and presentation) in the GitHub repository here.

Autonomous Mars Rover

A group project done for the year 2 end-of-year project module. I worked together with 5 other students to create an autonomous Mars rover. The goal of the project was to create a rover able to be controlled using a web interface. The rover had to identify coloured balls and explore an area of a map without user input.

My role in the team was integration - putting together all the work that other team members have done and doing bug fixes. I was responsible for creating the project video. I also helped with the 'Energy module' which was the theoretical exploration of how the rover could be powered using batteries and PV panels. This involved running some tests on the batteries to characterise their charge-discharge cycle.

You can find more info (including the full report) in the GitHub repository here.

Basic ARM-based CPU

A year 1 group project that involved making a basic CPU able to perform a few simple calculations within given timing and resource constraints.

The CPU was made in Verilog and simulated in Quartus. It's a 16-bit, pipelined ARM CPU able to perform basic calculations with a stack, a power consumption of under 50mW, and a max clock frequency of over 100 MHz. It was tested using three benchmarks: calculating a Fibonacci number using recursion, calculating pseudo-random integers, and traversing a linked list of integers and searching for a specific element in the list.

You can find more info (including the full report) in the GitHub repository here.

Contact

If you would like to get in touch, feel free to drop me a message on LinkedIn (you can find my email address there).