My name is Dani White, and I'm an MEng student in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. I will graduate in May of 2022 and I'm currently looking for a full time position related to controls/robotics after graduation.
I work in the Learning and Intelligent Systems Group under Professor Tomás Lozano-Pérez. My research focuses on nonprehensile manipulation of paper, which you read more about here.
Before starting my MEng, I completed my undergraduate degree in Course 6-2 (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) at MIT and graduated in February 2021. I've interned at Tesla as a Vehicle Software Integration intern, ASML as a Mechatronics intern, Zenuity as a Decision and Control intern, and Tulip Interfaces as a Hardware and Embedded intern. A lot of the projects below are from my work on MIT Motorsports, which is a student team that builds an electric racecar to compete in the FSAE Electric competition.
You can email me at dmwhite@mit.edu and find my resume here. Check out the links below for some projects that I'm proud of.
Projects
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MEng Research: Nonprehensile Paper Manipulation
My MEng research focuses on the nonprehensile manipulation of deformable objects.
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Electric Racecar Launch Control
My main technical resposiblity on my FSAE team for our MY20 vechicle was launch control, a control algorithm for preventing tire slip when the driver floors the accelerator at the beginning of the Acceleration Event.
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MIT Motorsports Controls Lead
In addition to my purely techinical responsibilities, I was the Controls Lead for the MY20 vehicle and served on the exec team.
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LQR Steady-State Racecar Cornering Control
As part of 6.832 Underactated Robotics, taught by Russ Tedrake at MIT, I implemented a steady state controller for a torque vectoring vehicle in simulation as my final project.
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Electric Racecar Vehicle Control Unit
For my electric racecar's MY19 vehicle, I was Software Lead (part of the exec team) and in charge for integrating all software in the car's embedded system.
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MIT Motorsports Software Lead
For my electric racecar's MY19 vehicle, I was Software Lead (part of the exec team) and in charge for integrating all software in the car's embedded system.
