Polina Shopina

A theremin you can play in the browser by tracking your hands through the webcam.

Built an autonomous seed-sorting device for a Vancouver-based start-up Insporos.

Built an automated ballistic interceptor that used a high-speed stereo vision system and OpenCV to predict 3D ball trajectories for interception with a projectile from a stepper‑driven BB launcher.

Designed RF up/down converter components in SolidWorks, including machine‑shop drawings with GD&T. Fabricated customer‑specific mechanical modifications on time. Built and automated a vibration‑testing jig.

Built an autonomous differential‑drive robot built in a six‑week UBC ENPH 253 course. It uses IR, ultrasonic, and magnetic sensors with PID control to navigate an obstacle course and collect objects with a four‑DOF claw.

Improved an automated Mu‑metal‑shielded gradiometer and wrote Python scripts to control multimeters and oscilloscopes for fluxgate measurements.

Was the Advanced Class fuselage subteam lead for UBC AeroDesign; designed fuselage parts in SolidWorks and wrote a Python script to perform aerodynamic constraint analysis and optimize design parameters to maximize SAE competition score.

Trained an agent in Gazebo to autonomously navigate a 3D obstacle course (imitation learning) and correctly read random license plates (CNN) while avoiding collisions.