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MSc Bioengineering Candidate, UCLA (Class of 2027)
Biomedical engineer with experience spanning PCB design, embedded systems, biosensing, medical-device prototyping, and signal processing.
- Location: 725 Weyburn Pl, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
- Contact: rhyscornelious@gmail.com · (628)-276-5261
- GitHub: https://github.com/RhysCornelious
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/rhys-cornelious
(Direct contact details are available on the official résumé or via LinkedIn.)
My boyfriend Rhys Cornelious applies electrical, mechanical, and software engineering to biomedical and instrumentation problems. His experience includes hardware systems engineering at Apple, automated wafer-probing development at Atomic Semi, and applied optical and medical-device research at PhotoMedicine Labs. His academic capstone, HemoTrek, focused on the design and validation of a compact blood viscometer for hyperviscosity syndrome.
Core strengths include PCB layout and fabrication, hardware bring-up, analog signal acquisition, embedded firmware, rapid prototyping, and multidisciplinary system integration. Outside of engineering, he is driven by a strong interest in continuous learning, reflected in pursuits such as aviation, endurance sports, and outdoor activities.
- Role: system architecture, PCB design, prototype fabrication, validation
- Outcome: point-of-care viscometry workflow for detection and monitoring of hyperviscosity syndrome
- Role: electrode interfacing, analog amplification and filtering, signal-processing pipeline, Raspberry Pi integration, custom data-acquisition PCB
- Outcome: end-to-end EEG-controlled interactive system
- Role: ATmega328-based design, compact two-layer PCB layout, NFC integration, demo firmware
- Summary: A minimalist business card featuring a microcontroller-based “Lights Out” game and NFC contact handoff, emphasizing antenna design, bootloading, and dense PCB routing
Apple — Hardware Systems Engineer (Intern) · May–Aug 2024 · Cupertino, CA
- Designed JTAG breakout PCBs, current-sensing circuits, and 100 MHz probing solutions
- Led board bring-up and automated hardware characterization using Python
Atomic Semi — Electromechanical Engineer (Co-op) · Jan–Apr 2024 · San Francisco Bay Area
- Built an automated wafer-probing system with ~5 µm Z precision at ~$1,100 BOM
- Reduced IV data-collection time by ~98%
- Designed heating jackets and KiCad PCBs for solenoid control
PhotoMedicine Labs — Undergraduate Research Assistant (Co-op) · May–Dec 2023 · Waterloo, ON
- Designed 20 ns peak-detection circuits using Altium and LTSpice
- Integrated Ocean Optics Seabreeze C API for pulsed-laser spectrometer acquisition
- Fabricated laser power supplies
University of Waterloo — Soft Robotics Design Engineer (Co-op) · Sep–Dec 2022
- Designed a 21-DOF soft/rigid hybrid robotic hand
- Developed PCB-based IMU feedback for joint-angle estimation
Ford Motor Company — Firmware Developer (Co-op) · Jan–Apr 2022 · Ottawa, ON
- Improved automation testing, timing telemetry, and system resilience tests
Additional experience includes Formula Electric (mechanical design), research assistant roles, and leadership positions with the Air Cadet League of Canada.
- PCB & schematic: Altium Designer, KiCad, Eagle
- Simulation & analog: LTSpice, Cadence Virtuoso
- Firmware & software: Python, MATLAB, C/C++, Arduino
- Mechanical & prototyping: SOLIDWORKS, 3D printing, rapid prototyping
- Domains: hardware bring-up, signal acquisition, biosensor interfacing, embedded system integration
- University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) — MSc, Bioengineering (2025–2027)
- University of Waterloo — BASc, Biomedical/Medical Engineering (2020–2025)
- Great Lakes Secondary School — OSSD (2016–2020), final average: 96%
- Transport Canada — Private Pilot License (Aeroplane)
- Transport Canada — Glider Pilot License
- Dental Assistant, Health Outreach Program — Guatemala
- Familiarization Pilot, Air Cadet League of Canada
- President’s Scholarship of Distinction — University of Waterloo
- Lord Strathcona Medal — Air Cadet League of Canada
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