I build robots, communities, and the occasional idea that turns out to be a really good one. Currently engineering wheels, motors, and PCBs at Arizona State.
enough backstory to make this make sense
I'm someone who builds — not just machines, but communities, systems, and the kind of things you can hold in your hand and say "yeah, I made that."
Born and raised in Uzbekistan, I came to ASU's Polytechnic campus to study Robotics Engineering after a long road of olympiads, hackathons, and a couple of meetings with the Uzbek President where I learned that showing up is half the work.
Today I lead the wheel-motor subsystem on CropSCOUT, an autonomous agricultural rover. I serve as the Treasurer of Drone Devils, Vice President of the Uzbek Students Association, and I've spent two years as a USG Senator drafting bills, holding $125K+ in budgets accountable, and getting things done.
Outside the lab I make Arduino battle bots, ship apps that hit 1,000+ downloads, run cultural festivals that pull 400+ guests, and try not to break things in the machine shop. Try.
I believe the best engineering isn't the most complicated — it's the most useful. That's what I'm here to do.
Robotics — my life. I didn't do any of this for El-Yurt Umidi or for ASU. I've been doing robotics since 2019 — and it's not just an interest, it's my life. The competitions, the late-night sessions, the broken circuits, the rebuilt robots — all of it came from passion, not from a goal.
When I saw what El-Yurt Umidi and ASU could offer, I applied — and I got in. Those opportunities came to me; I didn't go searching for them. I love robotics and I hate it at the same time — it bothers me, keeps me up at night, makes my head spin. But that's exactly why I can't walk away from it. I'll be doing this for the rest of my life.
soldered, screwed, shipped
featuring leadership, budgets, and the occasional Robert's Rules of Order
competitions, recognitions, and the occasional good photograph
The most prestigious leadership recognition awarded by ASU's Undergraduate Student Government at the Polytechnic campus. Awarded for sustained advocacy, drafted policy that became real student wins, and showing up for two full terms.
Brought "Cheese Touch" — a 1-pound combat robot — to ASU's combat robotics tournament and won Best Dressed for design and craftsmanship. Also competed in the National Havoc Robot League.
EduShelf, our smart productivity desk shelf, took 2nd place at the FSE 301 Demo Day under Dr. Griffin — beating dozens of other six-person teams across customer-discovery, business model, and live investor pitch.
Selected for the El-Yurt Umidi Foundation — Uzbekistan's national talent scholarship for studying abroad — which is funding my full B.S.E. in Engineering (Robotics) at Arizona State University.
Selected for ASU's Grand Challenges Scholars Program, an honors track focused on the National Academy of Engineering's 14 challenges for the next century. My focus: engineering tools that scale.
> the school-years résumé that helped get scholarship
> photos from the contests above — 2019 to 2022
> nothing reconstructed — posted the day it happened, 2020 to today
> four clips that need no explanation
> posted by the channels that were in the room
> written about by other people
> labs, orgs, and the engineering portfolio
tested in projects, not just in lecture slides
the ones that actually shaped how I think about engineering
Trajectory planning, computed-torque control, advanced manipulator dynamics — the deeper half of the kinematics story. Built and simulated full robot control stacks.
favoriteEnd-to-end embedded product design — schematic to KiCad PCB to JLCPCB fabrication. Where CropSCOUT's motor-driver board came to life.
capstone-grade workForward and inverse kinematics, manipulator modeling, vision-driven control of robot arms. The mathematical foundation under every robot move.
core roboticsFirst embedded course — microcontroller fundamentals, peripheral interfacing, real-time firmware on the bench.
embeddedMixed-signal design — sampling, ADCs, op-amp front ends, and the messy reality of getting analog sensors into a digital world cleanly.
signalsPower electronics, motor drivers, EMI/EMC, and the unglamorous-but-critical art of making a circuit actually work outside a simulator.
electricalMaster-level SolidWorks — assemblies, surfacing, sheet metal, FEA, design intent. Earned my CSWA along the way.
favoriteEngineering-as-problem-solving for real users. Process, prototyping, and the messy first iterations that teach the most.
designThe second half — full team-based product development cycle from user research to working prototype.
designManual lathe, mill, drill press, surface grinder, hand tools — the entire shop. Hand-machined a working brass torch as the final piece.
most hands-onMaterial selection, forming, casting, joining — knowing why a part is steel vs aluminum vs plastic, and how it'll be made.
manufacturingStatics, dynamics, and the rigid-body foundations every mechanical design quietly relies on.
mechanicsODEs, Laplace transforms, systems of equations — the language every controller, every dynamic system, every motor model is written in.
required for everythingMatrices, eigenvalues, vector spaces — the math beneath state-space control, computer graphics, and every "AI" calculation.
underrated essentialPython and MATLAB for modeling real engineering systems — bringing physics simulations and numerical methods into actual workflows.
simulation3D rigid-body dynamics, oscillation, resonance — why a motor-driven arm doesn't shake itself apart (usually).
physicsreturn on investment: pending, but trending up
Arizona State University — Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering
Engineering(Robotics)
Grand Challenges Scholar · Dean's List · CSWA Certified
