# Conrad Ku

> Designing Humanoid Robot Hands @ 1X |                                                                                                                 RoMeLa @ UCLA | UIUC

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/conradku

## Work Experience
### Mechanical Design Engineer @ 1X
Jan 2025 – Present | Palo Alto, California, United States

### Graduate Research Assistant @ RoMeLa
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | Los Angeles, California, United States
Building next-gen robots at the Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory w/ Dennis Hong

### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ RoboDesign Lab
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Urbana-Champaign Area
Designing testing rig to quantity the effect of joint friction on task space inertia

### Vehicle Dynamics Technical Lead @ Eco Illini Supermileage
Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 | Urbana-Champaign Area
-Leading members in the development of the fifth-generation electric vehicle regarding braking, steering, rolling, and packaging
-Redesigned bulky steering system to trim weight and free up space in the driver’s module
-Manufactured components on turret mill and manual lathe to meet design specifications
-Took first place in the 2019 Shell Eco Marathon Americas in the Prototype Battery Electric division with a fuelefficiency of 152 miles per kilowatt hour

### Product Design Intern @ Apple
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Cupertino, California, United States
Product Designer for the first generation Apple Watch Ultra 
-NX, FEA, GD&T

### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ Mobility and Fall Prevention Research Laboratory
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Urbana-Champaign Area
-Used the MATLAB toolbox EEGLAB to develop a pipeline to analyze EEG data in real time to
extract and recognize signs of patient anxiety in a virtual reality environment
-Identified artifacts from components extracted from a 64-channel brain signal using Independent Component Analysis 
-Helped verify wrist flexion models for patients including those with Parkinson’s Disease

### Student Grader @ ECE 205: Introduction to Electric and Electronic Circuits
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Urbana-Champaign Area
Graded weekly assignments submitted by students in a timely manner and provided feedback

### Engineering Co-Lead @ The Reach of Humanity Project
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Urbana-Champaign Area
-Designed a low-technology, easy-to-manufacture prosthetic hand that can be created onsite to provide prosthetists in undeveloped countries a solution to the shortage of medical resources
• Created a 6-linkage prototype finger mechanism with that enables a grasp that adapts to complex geometries
• Tested prototypes to reduce assembly time, costs, and tooling while maintaining functionality

### Summer Intern @ InSilixa
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019
-Designed a new heating system that would achieve similar heating and cooling as rates as the previous
model using heat transfer principles while extending product life from 3 months to 3 years
- Optimized prints on the Ultimaker 3 to increase part resolution in biochip prototypes
- Redrafted circuit schematics for PCR devices that would be assembled, wired, and verified for functionality that allowed for more tests to be conducted when other rigs were unavailable for use


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Mechanical Engineering
UCLA

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Mechanical Engineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

### Homestead High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/cmku
- Portfolio: https://cmku408.wixsite.com/portfolio

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Last updated: 2026-04-13