Rami Hanna
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Robotics engineer focused on software, controls, sensing, and real hardware.

Interdisciplinary robotics engineer completing an M.Sc. in Autonomous Systems at DTU, with experience writing robotics software, integrating sensors, tuning controls, using simulation, and building data workflows around physical machines.

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Experience

PerPlant

Robotics Co-op

2025-02 to 2025-11

Agtech startup using computer vision and AI for precision agriculture. My role focused on robotics field tooling, thermal sensing, and dataset workflows around real crop data.

Contributions+
  • Integrated a thermal imaging workflow using irpythermal with ROS2 publishers/subscribers in C++ and Python.
  • Enabled GPS-geotagged thermal image collection for precision agriculture.
  • Built a dataset sampling pipeline using ROI filtering, detector embeddings, UMAP, HDBSCAN, and grouped splits.

Harvard Microrobotics

Robotics Co-op

2022-09 to 2023-03

Startup-style robotics lab developing underwater robot fleets. My work supported teleoperation, autonomous behavior, embedded communication, and mechanical iteration.

Contributions+
  • Developed a webserver using HTML, Flask, sockets, embedded C, and MicroROS.
  • Supported teleoperated and autonomous operation of an underwater robot fleet.
  • Collaborated on planetary gearbox design for robot locomotion.

Raytheon Technologies

Innovation / Robotics Co-op

2022-01 to 2022-05

Manufacturing automation work around a long-standing manual production process. My role connected robot motion, PLCs, vision systems, and fixture design.

Contributions+
  • Contributed to automation using PLCs, a UR5e robot, and Keyence vision systems.
  • Worked in a production-oriented manufacturing setting with real process constraints.
  • Designed modular fixtures for circuit-card surface-mount equipment using CAD tools.

DEKA Research and Development

Controls Intern

2019-04 to 2021-07

Biomedical engineering R&D environment with controls, instrumentation, test infrastructure, and data collection around physical devices.

Contributions+
  • Implemented a PID-controlled heating and cooling system via Modbus TCP/IP and LabVIEW.
  • Developed RFID tracking integrated with Python and SQL for batch records.
  • Built an Arduino and Python test bench for autonomous multi-source serial data collection.

Selected projects + coursework

Autonomy Sensor Data & Mapping Coursework

DTU coursework across robot autonomy, unmanned systems, and marine robotics: ROS2 occupancy-grid mapping from `/odom` and `/scan`, TF2 transforms, Bresenham ray tracing, Crazyflie controller-validation/debugging, and ROS/Gazebo/RViz sensor-data workflows.

ADLCV

Coursework project exploring DDPM-style Super Mario level generation from 14x14 ASCII levels, using tile-to-sprite rendering plus unconditional and conditional UNet variants.

Teradyne Cartesian Robot and Tool Changer

Programmed a Cartesian robot system using Raspberry Pi, ESP32, a load cell, and HX711-based closed-loop control, reaching 0.01 mm travel precision and 0.5 g load standard deviation.

Education

Technical University of Denmark

M.Sc., Autonomous Systems

2024-09 to 2026-07 (expected)

Lyngby, Denmark

Focus+
  • Focus on autonomous software, robotics, machine learning, computer vision, and Industry 4.0.
  • Thesis work in soft-finger actuation modeling for rehabilitation-oriented hardware.

University of New South Wales

Exchange studies, Computer Science

2025-09 to 2025-12

Sydney, Australia

Focus+
  • Exchange semester used to broaden computer-science coursework outside the DTU catalog.
  • Courses included database design, language theory, and business analytics.

Wentworth Institute of Technology

B.S., Electromechanical Engineering, Summa Cum Laude

2019-08 to 2023-08

Boston, Massachusetts

Focus+
  • Interdisciplinary mechanical, electrical, and electromechanical engineering degree.
  • Dean's Award recipient; IEEE, robotics, ROV, and Accelerate involvement.