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Kasra Rategh

Studying EE @ UCLA · From the Bay Area

Kasra Rategh, head and shoulders, against a plain studio background.

Currently

What I’m working on

As of / September 2026

Context
UCLA engineering freshman, admitted to Bioengineering and working toward a switch to Electrical Engineering.
Work
KeyTag, my first from-scratch four-layer PCB. The boards and parts are on the way; hand assembly and bring-up are next.
Interests
Hardware and tinkering; volleyball, lifting, and catching a good sunset.

Work

My projects

  1. 01KeyTag PCB
    • Hardware
    • PCB design
    • Firmware
    • RF
    A rechargeable Bluetooth keychain tracker that reports through Apple's Find My network — and a first from-scratch four-layer board.    2026
  2. 02TV Guide
    • Software
    • Web
    • Accessibility
    A phone-sized YouTube remote for an Apple TV, built for one person who found the TV's own interface unusable.    2026
  3. 03Radar Gesture Detection
    • Signal processing
    • Machine learning
    • Embedded
    Training a neural network to add my own gesture to a 60 GHz radar, and running it on the radar's own processor.    2025
  4. 04Osteoporosis Therapy
    • Synthetic biology
    • Research
    • Simulation
    A competition proposal to engineer a gut bacterium into a delivery system for bone protein, aimed at osteoporosis.    2025
  5. 05Air Trajectory
    • Mechanical
    • Hardware
    • Calibration
    A gravity-powered air launcher for Science Olympiad, calibrated over a hundred hours to land a ping-pong ball on targets 2 to 8 metres out.    2024–25
  6. 06Bellicopter
    • Mechanical
    • CAD
    • Electronics
    A three-pound combat robot with a belt-driven overhead weapon, built by four classmates for a school tournament.    2023–24