Tuan Duc Chu
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About

Tuan Duc Chu is an Electrical Engineering / Applied Mathematics Honors Student interested in the intersection of semiconductor device design, computer hardware architectures, and artificial intelligence performance. His experience spans the full electronics stack: physical device nanoelectronics, embedded microelectronics, and classical hardware design. He is driven by one question: how do we build hardware that makes intelligent systems faster, smaller, and more efficient? Always looking to connect with people pushing the frontier of semiconductor and AI hardware.


Research & Experience

Undergraduate Researcher
Advanced Quantum Materials Laboratory, Stevens Institute of Technology

Research and development of semiconductor devices, including memristor and EMR-based structures, leveraging spiking neural network-based machine learning alongside 2D semiconductor device characterization and simulation, with applications in neuromorphic computing acceleration and ultra-sensitive magnetic field sensing.

  • Designed and characterized MoS₂ memristor and EMR device architectures using COMSOL Multiphysics, analyzing dielectric thickness effects on switching and Hall parameters.
  • Developed spiking neural network (SNN) models for digit recognition using 2D memristor material simulations, achieving 94.23% accuracy.
  • Operated CVD systems for controlled growth of 2D materials; performed optical characterization via photoluminescence and Raman spectroscopy.
  • Containerized applications including NEST Simulator, Jupyter Notebook, and TensorFlow using Docker.
  • Conducted literature reviews on quantum materials, neural networks, and neuromorphic computing; presented findings to research team and faculty.
Electrical Designer
NASA RockSat Program, NASA New Jersey Space Grant Consortium

Development of payload electrical and electronic systems with automation solutions for Atmospheric Inert Gas Retrieval, enabling high-speed atmospheric gas sampling at predetermined time intervals during a Venus upper-atmosphere sample return mission using a Terrier-Improved Orion / Malemute sounding rocket at Wallops Flight Facility.

  • Designed electrical schematics and developed prototype PCBs using KiCad for an Atmospheric Inert Gas Retrieval payload.
  • Integrated electrical systems ensuring compliance with system and user requirements for a Terrier-Improved Orion / Malemute sounding rocket at Wallops Flight Facility.
  • Presented electrical sections at CoDR, PDR, CDR, STR, and FMSR progress reviews to NASA.
  • Led system-level integration with Mechanical Structures and Experiments teams to ensure mission success.
Teaching Assistant — ENGR 245: Circuits and Systems
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology — Instructor: Dr. Mahmoud Al-Quzwini
  • Leading lab sections of 30+ undergraduate students in hands-on analog circuit construction, measurement, and debugging.
  • Training students on bench instrumentation including oscilloscopes, function generators, and digital multimeters for circuit characterization and signal analysis.
  • Supporting students in applying Kirchhoff's laws, Ohm's law, and nodal/mesh analysis to build and verify circuit behavior from schematic to physical implementation.
  • Guiding circuit simulation workflows using computer-based tools to evaluate and predict circuit behavior prior to hardware experimentation.

Projects

Professional Projects
NASA RockSat-C/X: Atmospheric Inert Gas Retrieval
  • Electrical Designer on a NASA-funded payload team to design, build, and launch a sounding rocket experiment on a Terrier-Improved Orion (apogee ~100km) at Wallops Flight Facility. (RockSat-C, Sep 2024 – Aug 2025)
  • Electrical Designer on a NASA payload team to design, build, and launch a sounding rocket experiment on a Terrier-Improved Malemute (apogee 150–170km) at Wallops Flight Facility. (RockSat-X, Sep 2025 – Dec 2025)
  • Member of the Software & Electrical Team, collaborating with the Mechanical Structures Team and the Experiments Team.
Neuromorphic Digit Recognition: Memristor-based Spiking Neural Networks
  • Undergraduate Research Assistant of the Pinnacle Scholar Program, awarded $5,000 stipend to conduct Summer Session Research.
  • Developed machine learning models using spiking neural networks and 2D memristor materials simulation to achieve digit recognition with 94.23% accuracy.
  • Conducted literature reviews on quantum materials, neural networks and neuromorphic computing, presenting key findings to research team and faculty.
Extraordinary Magnetoresistance (EMR) Device Design and Simulation
Personal Projects
Embedded & Systems
IoT-Enabled Embedded Environmental Monitoring and Automated Irrigation System
Autonomous Surface Vehicle using Embedded AruCo Marker-Guided Algorithm
Smart Biomedical Pillow for Cranial and Cervical Alignment
Mechanical Design and Structural Integrity Analysis of a Recreational Playground Structure
VHDL
D Flip-Flop with Combinational Logic
Mealy and Moore Finite State Machines
LED Decoder
Hexcount Anode Manipulation
Four Half-Adders

Courses

Mathematics
  • MA 121 Differential Calculus
  • MA 122 Integral Calculus
  • MA 125 Vectors and Matrices
  • MA 126 Multivariable Calculus I
  • MA 221 Differential Equations
Physics & Chemistry
  • CH 115 General Chemistry I
  • PEP 111 Mechanics
  • PEP 112 Electricity & Magnetism
  • PEP 151 Introduction to Astronomy
Electrical Engineering
  • EE 250 Mathematics for Electrical Engineers
  • EE 359 Electronic Circuits
  • EE 390 Microprocessor Systems
  • EE 489 Introduction to Electric Energy Systems
Computer Engineering
  • CPE 487 Digital System Design
Engineering
  • ENGR 111 Introduction to Engineering Design & Systems Thinking
  • ENGR 116 Intro to Programming & Algorithmic Thinking
  • ENGR 122 Field Sustainable Systems & Sensors
  • ENGR 211 Statics and Introduction to Engineering Mechanics
  • ENGR 212 Design of Dynamical Systems
  • ENGR 234 Thermodynamics
  • ENGR 245 Circuits and Systems

Technical Skills

Programming & HDLPython, C++, Assembly, VHDL
EDA & Embedded SystemsKiCad, Vivado, Keil, Micro-Cap
Modeling & Scientific ComputingMATLAB, COMSOL Multiphysics, NEST
DevOps & Version ControlGit, Docker
CAD / Mechanical DesignSolidWorks

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Languages

EnglishFluent
VietnameseNative
RussianConversational