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Curriculum vitae for Gabriel Dimonde.

Contact Information

Name Gabriel Dimonde
Professional Title PhD Student
Email gabriel.jon.dimonde@proton.me
Location Lafayette, LA,

Professional Summary

PhD Student

Experience

  • 2025 - present

    Lafayette, LA

    PhD Student
    University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    • Researching geodesic path planning on Riemannian manifolds
    • Studying Gauss’s Principle of Least Constraint
    • Low-power robotic sensing
  • 2024 - 2025

    Broussard, LA

    Associate, Field Engineer
    L3Harris
    • Collaborated with team to identify electrical drawing vs. implementation differences
    • Increased responsibilities during coworkers’ international travel
    • Generated BOM for sub-unit with incomplete data, completing key project task
    • Fixed complex electrical issues through schematic review and troubleshooting
    • Transitioned to new segment, adapted within a week, helping to meet tight deadlines
    • Developed a PLC program for actuator control with relays
    • Created relay control circuit for the actuator and PLC
    • Identified and resolved a critical AC system electrical fault, increasing system reliability
    • Analyzed and repaired engine bay lighting circuits by interpreting electrical drawings
    • Documented E-STOP circuit, improving maintenance efficiency of an old ASV
    • Field tested CW78 and CW76 autonomous surface vehicles at a local lake
    • Fabricated an aluminum moon-pool cover for the C-Target, reducing water drag
    • Gained CLI proficiency; developed recursive grep command to automate file search
    • Configured networks via CLI, wrote bash script for VPN tunnel splitting
    • Diagnosed radar issue via manufacturer collaboration
  • 2022 - 2023

    Lafayette, LA

    Undergraduate Student Researcher
    University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    • Spearheaded material testing for Martian regolith self-healing concrete
    • Designed, 3D printed, and molded cube and cylinder sample molds
    • Designed 3D-printable Compressmeter/Extensometer, reducing costs by ~$500
    • Conducted ASTM-standard cube compression tests
    • Assisted chemical engineers with regolith mixing and brick baking
  • 2020 - 2022

    Lafayette, LA

    Intern
    BlueCollar Engineering and Manufacturing
    • Created to-scale floor plan of an ~50,000 sq-ft manufacturing plant using AutoCAD
    • Modeled bollards with Autodesk Inventor
    • Determined bollard material with FEA simulation
    • Generated and redlined drawings for each bollard and other designs
    • Manufactured parts with a Bridgeport milling machine
    • Established fast maintenance routines for shop equipment, ensuring maximum lifetime
    • Developed Autodesk tutorials to streamline part library additions

Education

  • 2019 - 2023

    Lafayette, LA

    BS
    University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    Mechanical Engineering
    • GPA: 3.79/4.00
    • Senior capstone: Friction Stir Extrusion Machine (IMECE2025 publication)

Projects

  • Friction Stir Extrusion Machine
    • Identified two sources of EMI noise in transducer data, improving data integrity to ±2 lbs
    • Completed a 3×3 test matrix — 100% of sponsor’s goal
    • Assisted in various PLC code improvements in ladder logic form
    • Directed a cross-functional team, ensuring all contributed to project success
  • Digital Twin — 8-DOF Robotic Arm
    • Learned Wolfram Mathematica to model the robotic arm
    • Applied homogeneous transformations between body frames
    • Studied inverse kinematics and difficulty of closed-form solutions
    • Applied basic control theory to individual DOF to achieve desired end-effector position
  • CNN vs Fully Connected Image Classifier
    • Trained autoencoders using TensorFlow and Keras to reconstruct iron microstructures
    • Developed classifiers using a neural network and autoencoder layers
    • Evaluated classifier performance (~60% correct)
    • Plotted error types with confusion matrices
  • ATV Constant-Mesh Transmission
    • Measured and dynamically modeled ATV transmission parts in SolidWorks

Publications

Funding

  • Summer 2026
    Louisiana Board of Regents GRASS
    • $10,000 — Integrated trajectory planning and control for scalable multi-UAV crop monitoring in smart agriculture
    • Graduate Researcher under PI Dr. Boyang Zhang

Skills

Programming: Python, Java, MATLAB, ROS2, PLC Ladder Logic, Structured Text, Mathematica
Hardware: 3D Printing, Electrical Troubleshooting
Tools: Linux CLI, Autodesk Inventor, SolidWorks, FreeCAD, Gazebo Harmonic
Teamwork: Documentation, Communication, Collaboration