Yuze Cai

Experience & Education

Amazon Robotics

Software Development Engineer Intern — RDPI

May 2026 — Aug 2026 | Bellevue, WA

IMERSE Lab, Johns Hopkins University

Researcher — Hierarchical Learning & Simulation

Jan 2026 — Aug 2026 | Baltimore, MD

Johns Hopkins University — Whiting School of Engineering

B.S. Computer Engineering (GPA: 3.91)

Aug 2025 — Present | Baltimore, MD

Selected Projects

6-DOF Robot Arm

Custom robot arm with gravity compensation, impedance control, drag-teach, and auto-calibration.

Python C++ Impedance Control MuJoCo

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robot-sysid

Open-source tool for robotic arm system identification — solves for inertial parameters via spatial dynamics regressors on a rank-deficient system, reporting identifiable base parameters.

Python MuJoCo SymPy Spatial Dynamics

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Minmus Flight Computer

A custom flight computer for high-power rocketry, with I2C sensor fusion and BLDC motor control across three ESP32 boards.

FreeRTOS ESP32 PCB Design BLDC Control

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ViSA: Virtual Swashplate

Aircraft control system eliminating mechanical complexity through virtual swashplates.

32kHz ISR Sinusoidal Drive Fusion 360 C++

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SpinTOL UAV

Research and development of a highly efficient UAV utilizing spin-stabilized vertical takeoff and landing.

Fusion 360 Simulink Kalman Filter PID Control

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Photography

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