# Heisen Kong

> Hardware Product Development @ REV |
MechE @ Cornell

Location: Ithaca, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/heisen

## Work Experience
### Product Development Engineer @ Rev: Ithaca Startup Works
Jan 2025 – Present

### Student Researcher @ Cornell Human-Robot Collaboration & Companionship Lab (HRC2)
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Ithaca, New York, United States
• Researched human-robot collaboration in prototyping and design for a community garden using OpenCV, Mediapipe, Shapely, and ROS.
• Developed a system for a Kinova gen3 arm to interpret hand gestures for fence placement.

### Student Research Assistant @ EmPRISE Lab
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Ithaca, New York, United States
• Assisted in building an open-source haptic dataset for robot research at EmPRISE Lab.
• Maintained and improved data-collection devices equipped with Active/Passive thermal and Force sensors.

### Business Team Lead @ CU Design Build Fly
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | Ithaca, New York, United States

### Founder of Automatea @ Rev: Ithaca Startup Works
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Ithaca, New York, United States

### Summer Analyst @ SC LOWY
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Hong Kong SAR

### Intern @ Pacific Century Premium Developments Limited
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Hong Kong SAR


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering
Cornell University
Jan 2021 – Jan 2025

### Master of Engineering - MEng in Systems Engineering
Cornell University
Jan 2025 – Jan 2025

### The Loomis Chaffee School
Jan 2017 – Jan 2021


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/heisen-kong
- Website: https://heisen-kong.github.io/

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Last updated: 2026-04-01