Elena Zhang

Computer Engineering @ Georgia Tech

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

About

Hello! I am a rising second year Computer Engineering major at Georgia Tech. I'm interested in biomedical instrumentation, robotics, and analog test, validation and design.

Experience

  • Conference Assistant at Georgia Institute of Technology
    May 2026 - Present · 2 mos

  • Peer Instructor at The Hive at Georgia Tech
    May 2026 - Present · 2 mos

  • Undergraduate Researcher at Georgia Tech VIP Program
    Jan 2026 - Present · 6 mos

    Undergraduate research member of the Mechatronics and Motivation group led by Professor Flavin. Developing wearable electronics that integrate EMG sensors and haptic actuators to monitor K-12 students' anxiety in mathematics classrooms. - Designed a custom flexible PCB for the haptic actuator in Altium Designer. Oversaw hardware life cycle from schematic to layout and assembly. - Developing algorithms for real-time EMG signal processing in MATLAB and Python.

  • RoboNav Electrical subteam member at RoboJackets
    Aug 2025 - Present · 11 mos

    - Testing and debugging ODrive motor controller hardware using the odrivetool Python console. Integrating with various BLDCs. - Transitioning current antenna tracking subsystem for the base station from an omnidirectional to a directional antenna. Scraping GPS, SNR, RSSI metrics from Ubiquiti antenna software to allow continual tracking of rover and drone.

  • Undergraduate Researcher at The Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University
    Aug 2025 - Dec 2025 · 5 mos

    Undergraduate research member of the Bio-Medical Informatics and Bioimaging Laboratory (Bio-MIBLab). Evaluated and compared the performance of different LLM reasoning schemes (Tree of Thoughts, Graph of Thoughts, Buffer of Thoughts) for diagnosing obstructive sleep apnea from electroencephalogram (EEG) data. Ran LLMs on Georgia Tech’s high-performance computing (HPC) PACE-ICE cluster.