Category: Work Experience

Amplified Industries Electrical Engineering Intern

Amplified Industries (formerly Acoustic Wells) builds specialized IOT sensors to monitor operating performance of oil wells, collect and analyze data, and automatically notify oil producers of environment-threatening conditions (such as methane leaks). This summer I designed custom embedded C firmware to control Variable Frequency Drives (VFDs) operating on-shore oil well assets. My firmware used the MODBUS/RS485 protocol to vary the...

Work Experience

QuikCal: Construction Site Scheduling Application

QuikCal is a scheduling application that uses image recognition and AI to convert construction site job whiteboards to a google calendar. Many construction companies use whiteboards to organize deliveries of building materials to jobsites. However, these whiteboards are messy, are not remotely accessible, and don’t support a log of deliveries to a jobsite. Moreover, existing enterprise grade project management...

Coursework/Work Experience

Aspine

“Aspine” is a web application framework for building single-page applications (SPAs) using the AngularJS framework. The project is open source and provides a range of features such as an authentication system, RESTful API integration, and more. The framework is designed to be lightweight and flexible, allowing developers to build customized SPAs quickly and efficiently. The repository contains detailed documentation on...

Work Experience

Northeastern University Young Scholars’ Program

I participated in Northeastern University’s Young Scholars’ Program where I conducted efficient deep learning research in Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering with Professor Xue Lin. I worked on optimizing training parameters for convolutional neural networks and presented a final poster summarizing my research from the summer.

Work Experience

Hi, my name is Ken Kalin. I'm a junior at Duke University. I am double majoring in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science at the Pratt School of Engineering. This summer I worked as an Electrical Engineering Intern at Acoustic Wells, Inc. (now Amplified Industries), an IOT startup based in Boston, MA.

Computer programming has been one of my passions for a number of years. I have conducted research into deep learning and convolutional neural networks as part of the Young Scholar's Program at Northeastern University. I've developed several websites and mobile applications, including an arcade-style iPhone game called “Bubble Basher” and a cross platform messaging application called “The Messageboard.”

In my free time, I am a licensed Ham Radio operator and have contacted people in many countries around the world with my shortwave radio. I also play guitar in a “rock band” with some of my friends.