HARDWARE · EXPERIMENTS · SYSTEMS

Yuki Qian.

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Electrical Engineering @ University of Pennsylvania

I like hard problems that force me to build.

I build physical technology across sensing, electronics, energy, and infrastructure. I’m happiest somewhere between an ambitious idea and a system that actually works—prototyping, measuring, debugging, and building again.

I want to build technologies that expand what we can measure, make, and do.

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Résumé ↗

Temporary stock photograph of a circuit board; replace with Yuki working

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STATUS

Currently / EE @ Penn

Building / physical sensing + digital hardware

Learning / RTL · FPGA · semiconductor design

Open to / Summer 2027 hardware & EE internships

STATUS

Currently / EE @ Penn

Building / physical sensing + digital hardware

Learning / RTL · FPGA · semiconductor design

Open to / Summer 2027 hardware & EE internships

01 / FEATURED

Selected work.

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HARDWARE / INFRASTRUCTURE

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Bedrock — Self-Sensing Concrete

What if concrete could tell us what was happening inside it?

Draft scope: exploring electrical measurements in concrete as a route to sensing physical changes. Methods and results are awaiting Yuki’s verification.

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HARDWARE / INFRASTRUCTURE

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Bedrock — Self-Sensing Concrete

What if concrete could tell us what was happening inside it?

Draft scope: exploring electrical measurements in concrete as a route to sensing physical changes. Methods and results are awaiting Yuki’s verification.

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SENSING / DIGITAL HARDWARE

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Physical Sensing + RTL

How can a physical signal become reliable digital information?

Draft scope: connecting physical sensing with digital hardware and RTL. Methods and results are awaiting Yuki’s verification.

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SENSING / DIGITAL HARDWARE

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Physical Sensing + RTL

How can a physical signal become reliable digital information?

Draft scope: connecting physical sensing with digital hardware and RTL. Methods and results are awaiting Yuki’s verification.

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MATERIALS / RESOURCE RECOVERY

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Algae + Rare Earth Elements

Could algae help recover materials our hardware depends on?

Draft scope: investigating algae and rare-earth element recovery. Methods and results are awaiting Yuki’s verification.

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Algae + Rare Earth Elements

Could algae help recover materials our hardware depends on?

Draft scope: investigating algae and rare-earth element recovery. Methods and results are awaiting Yuki’s verification.

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02 / ABOUT

Hardware, experiments, and the messy part in between.

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I’m an engineer and entrepreneur drawn to ambitious physical problems. My path has moved through energy, materials, infrastructure, sensing, instrumentation, and electronics. The common thread isn’t an industry: it’s building something physical, measuring it, and understanding why it fails.

I like owning the uncertain part of a problem. Learning an unfamiliar technical area, getting my hands dirty, testing a first approach, and iterating until the system works. Increasingly, that curiosity is taking me toward digital and semiconductor hardware—and toward technologies that let us do more in the real world.