Curriculum vitae · October 2026
Gonzalo Ferrero Martín
Electrical Engineering student — hardware and software.
2023 – 2028 · 3 schools
Education
Sep 2025 – Jul 2028
Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e)
Eindhoven — BSc Electrical Engineering, expected July 2028. First-year weighted average 9.58 / 10.
Sep 2024 – Jun 2025
Harrison High School
Harrison, New York — Graduated Summa Cum Laude. ACT 35.
Sep 2023 – Jun 2024
Humanitas Bilingual School
Tres Cantos, Madrid — Honorable mentions in Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry.
4 projects · 2025 – present
Projects
Jul 2026 – present
HDMI / DVI transmitter — Verilog on PYNQ-Z2 (Zynq-7020)
Personal project. A DVI pipeline from scratch: 640×480 timing, pattern generator and TMDS 8b/10b encoder, verified by self-checking XSIM testbenches — an independent decoder on every symbol, a full frame dumped to a PPM file and seven timing counts checked against constants. Serializer and board bring-up in progress.
May 2026 – Oct 2026
Battery-powered HiFi music player — PCB design
Personal design study, not built. Schematic capture, 4-layer PCB layout in three revisions and power path around an ESP32-S3R8; audio from Bluetooth or microSD through a MUX into an I2S DAC.
2026
Venus rover — autonomous dual-robot firmware, TU/e 5EID0
Run-on-boot C firmware for a PYNQ-Z2 rover: hunts colored cubes with three VL53L0X ToF sensors, dead-reckons its position, shares finds with a partner robot over MQTT (UART → ESP32 → broker); four-state autopilot, boundary-evade interrupt, 6-read burst vote on every detection. Also the Python mission-control relay, logger and live map.
2025 – 2026
Rock Your Baby — distributed baby-monitoring cradle, TU/e 5EWC0
Four PYNQ-Z2 subsystems in C talking over UART — heartbeat, crying, decision-making, actuator: ADC sampling, an adaptive exponential filter and RMS with noise-floor subtraction, pthreads, two PWM channels for the rocking motion.
2026 – 2027
Experience
Sep 2026 – Jun 2027
Student Mentor, First-Year Electrical Engineering
TU/e — current. Selected to guide incoming Electrical Engineering students through coursework and the transition to university.
Apr 2027 – Jul 2027
Student Assistant & Course Reviewer, Communication 1
TU/e — upcoming. Selected as one of two students to review and catalog the course’s content and support the lab sessions.
Jan 2026 – 14 Oct 2026
Electrical Engineer, Student Team Daedalus
Student Team Daedalus, TU/e — a solar-powered autonomous aircraft for wildfire surveillance. PCB design, embedded programming and bench verification of the aircraft’s electronics, in the Electrical / Embedded Systems department.
HDL, code, tools, hardware
Skills
HDL & code
Verilog, C, Python, MATLAB, engineering mathematics.
Tools
Vivado, XSIM, Verilator, Altium, KiCad, EasyEDA, LTspice.
Hardware
Analog and digital circuit design, 4-layer PCB layout, embedded systems, bring-up and bench debug.
PYNQ-Z2 (Zynq-7020) · ESP32 / ESP32-S3R8 · VL53L0X ToF · TCS3200 color sensor · TCRT5000 IR · NTC thermistors · stepper drivers · I2S DACs
Three languages · EU citizen
Languages
Spoken
Spanish, native · English, fluent · French, B1
Citizenship
Spanish and French (EU) · authorized to work in the United States through 2028