Hi, I’m Manank!

I'm a sophomore at UC Berkeley studying Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering. If there's one thing you need to know about me, it's that I love space, from galaxies to rockets to planets and everything in between. At UC Berkeley, I am part of two clubs on the UC Berkeley campus, Space Technologies and Rocketry (STAR) and Space Technologies at Cal (STAC). As part of STAR, I am the Vice President, handling launches, managing team documentation and reports, and running the club to make sure our rockets launch perfectly. I also do a lot of technical work, from CADding much of the rocket, to making simulations for rocket descent, to building the hardware for our liquid rocket. For STAC, I am the mechanical lead for a project called Lunar Hopper, aiming to build a robot that uses hopping as its primary way for locomotive motion to traverse difficult terrains that rovers and other vehicles can not access. I am currently part of the course staff for Engineering 7, Berkeley's Introduction to Programming course for engineers. I also previously conducted research and data analysis in cosmology at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) under Dr. Allyson Brodzeller on Damped Lyman-alpha Absorbers (DLAs). I also volunteer with Science Olympiad as part of the National A-Team, assisting with space science events, especially Astronomy. I primarily write tests and help supervise the space science events at tournaments.

Contact

Email: doshimanank@gmail.com
LinkedIn: manank-doshi