Electrical Engineer · Dallas–Fort Worth, TX

I design controls for systems that move fast and hit hard.

I’m Karime—an electrical engineer working across pulsed power, FPGA controls, embedded systems, and semiconductor fabrication.

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CONTROL SEQUENCE

CONFIGLATCHTRIGGER

01 / CONTROL, DIAGNOSE, ITERATE

I work where nanosecond timing, high voltage, and digital control meet.

FPGASTM32PLCSEMICONDUCTORS

Selected engineering work

Projects built from the signal path up.

FPGA · STM32 · Pulsed Power

Discretized Voltage Control of an LTD

A stage-aware controls architecture for selecting LTD cell configurations between pulses, then issuing deterministic triggers for programmable output-voltage levels.

FPGA enable/disable control for cells 2–4, with cell 1 serving as the base-firing cell
Common brick configuration within each stage and independent configuration from stage to stage
Diagnostic/status monitoring, voltage selection, and STM32-to-FPGA communication

View the Discretized Voltage Control LTD Project Poster PDF ↗

Discretized LTD control architecture showing system control, FPGA enable and disable signals for cells 2 through 4, and the trigger path — Cell-level enable/disable and trigger-control architecture

150 nspulse testing

PLC · FPGA · SiC / GaN

High-Repetition-Rate Linear Transformer Driver

Controls development for a compact pulsed-power generator targeting repeatable, high-speed operation with per-stage command and trigger control.

FPGA-based architecture interfaced with a PLC
Deterministic trigger patterns and per-stage enable/disable commands
System target of adjustable 10–50 kV output and peak currents up to 1 kA

Read the Solid-State LTD Senior Design Final Report PDF ↗

10–50 kVtarget output

Computer Vision · MediaPipe

Gesturo Car

A vision-controlled robotic rover that translates hand gestures into movement, stopping, turning, and lighting commands.

Developed in a five-person engineering team
Implemented real-time MediaPipe gesture recognition
Integrated camera input with rover command logic

Real-timehand recognition

Experience

Engineering in the lab and on the bench.

JUN 2026 — PRESENT

Pulsed Power and Energy Laboratory

Undergraduate Research Assistant · University of Texas at Arlington

Developing, testing, and debugging control and diagnostic systems for pulsed-power platforms, including an electromagnetic railgun research system sponsored by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory.

Developing controls for a Nevada National Security Sites-sponsored discretized LTD project, using STM32-to-FPGA communication to configure cell enable/disable states between pulses, coordinate stage triggers, support programmable voltage selection, and integrate diagnostic/status monitoring.

ControlsDebuggingHigh VoltageInstrumentation

About

Curious by default.
Technical by practice.

My work sits between hardware and control: I like understanding what a system is doing electrically, then building the logic that makes it repeatable, measurable, and easier to diagnose.

My interest in semiconductors has grown from learning how circuits behave to asking why devices behave the way they do—how materials, fabrication choices, and electrical characteristics shape performance. In the cleanroom, I’ve cleaned silicon wafers, spin-coated a phosphorus dopant, carried out diffusion steps, and measured sheet resistance with a four-point probe. Thermal oxidation and oxide characterization are next.