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Education

Harvard College

B.S. in Electrical Engineering, class of 2028. GPA 3.89.

Coursework in circuits, machine learning, TinyML, data science, multivariable calculus and linear algebra.

Research and experience

  • Fall 2025 to present

    Student researcher

    Harvard Microrobotics Lab, Cambridge, MA

    PRISE Fellow, Summer 2026

    • Designing 1 to 2 V driving electronics for the low-voltage voice-coil actuators of insect-scale robots.
    • Built a microcontroller-free comparator relaxation oscillator, independently tunable in frequency and duty cycle over 0.7 to 136 Hz, validated against an analytical model in simulation and hardware. With an H-bridge stage it delivers biphasic 2 V drive on a 7.6 by 3 mm, 18 mg flex board that drove wing flapping on a gliding microrobot.
    • Built a programmable MSPM0 driver: a 20 kHz PWM carrier with a software spike-and-hold envelope, six H-bridge channels at 60 degree offsets coordinating multi-leg gaits including the Harvard Ambulatory Microrobot.
    • Developing a biodegradable radio-frequency transmitter for transient robots using electrothermal bimetallic actuation and degradable substrates.
  • September 2026 to present

    Course assistant

    CS50, Harvard, Cambridge, MA

    • Run office hours for Harvard's introductory computer science course, working with students one to one and in small groups on their problem sets and helping them debug their own code.
  • Summer 2025

    Consultant

    CVS Health Innovation Lab, Woonsocket, RI

    • Designed and prototyped virtual reality systems, and researched and evaluated advanced robotics use cases across the enterprise.
  • 2023 to 2024

    Cancer research intern

    NCI Cancer Data Science Lab, NIH, Bethesda, MD

    • Built high-performance pipelines over millions of genomic variants, and applied statistical modelling to detect ancestry-related bias in large datasets.
    • Linked genomic and transcriptomic features to treatment outcomes, integrating heterogeneous datasets in Python, R and SQL.
  • 2021 to 2024

    Bioinformatics intern

    Wilkerson Lab, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD

    • Developed algorithms to analyse cancer mutations across diverse populations, reducing systemic bias, using C++, Bash and bioinformatics toolchains.

Honours and fellowships

  • 2026
    Roberts Family Fellow, Harvard Undergraduate Technology Innovation Fellows Program
  • Summer 2026
    PRISE Fellow, Harvard Program for Research in Science and Engineering
  • January 2026
    Harvard Grid West Tech Trek, Selected cohort, San Francisco
  • May 2026
    Harvard Power and AI Initiative Research Summit, Selected to present

More

Publications are listed on the publications page, and the technical work in detail under projects.

Reach me at bpollard@college.harvard.edu.