I’m an electrical engineering co-op student at the University of Alberta, based in Edmonton. I just finished a Project Coordinator Co-op at Aecon Group Inc. on the BHP Jansen site, where I worked with P&IDs, isometric drawings, Hexagon SmartPlant, Bluebeam Revu, SharePoint, and Aconex.

I’m currently working on Centre Mass, a self-balancing inverted pendulum robot built around active PID control, IMU sensing, and Raspberry Pi motor drive. Outside of that, I’ve built hardware and software projects including AkiPad V1, a custom macropad with PCB, firmware, and case design, and SignBridge, AI-powered ASL translation smart glasses developed at HackED 2026 (code on GitHub). I am an Electrical Team Member with the Alberta Autonomous Robotic Vehicle Project (ARVP), and previously taught swimming at the YMCA of Northern Alberta.

I speak English and Tamil, and French at a DELF B1 level. View my resume, or say hello at akileash.saravanan1@gmail.com.