Electrical Engineering · Penn State · Class of 2027

Ayan Ospan builds at the layer where hardware meets software.

Where a control loop is only as good as the code running it, and code has to answer to physics. Undergraduate researcher in autonomous systems, founder of Chronos, and Summer 2026 engineer intern at Wabtec — currently writing distributed systems in C++ and benchmarking infrastructure for LLMs.

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Now

Presented CETA @ ITEA

Independent research on ontology-grounded cyber test adequacy — presented at the ITEA Cybersecurity T&E Workshop 2026 and awarded the Min Kim Scholarship.

Researcher @ CASA-Goes Lab

Perception and control pipelines for autonomous robots — validated across 100+ simulation runs before hardware.

Founder @ Chronos

An AI scheduling platform with 100+ users, funded by Happy Valley LaunchBox.

Building DKVS

A replicated key-value store in C++20 — Raft, write-ahead logging, and leader election from scratch.

Selected work

DKVS

A fault-tolerant, replicated key-value store written from scratch in C++20 — an original implementation of Raft.

C++20RaftPOSIX SocketsCMakeGoogleTest+1

ActiveJun 2026 — Present

EvalForge

A production-grade, reproducible benchmarking and evaluation platform for LLMs — statistically honest results, every run stored.

TypeScriptNode.jsFastifyNext.jsTailwind CSS+5

Active2026 — Present

Chronos

An AI-powered scheduling platform for students — founded, funded, and shipped from zero.

TypeScriptReactViteTailwind CSSSupabase+4

ActiveNov 2025 — Present

Aqsha

A production-grade personal finance platform — atomic money math, multi-currency, and a recurring-billing engine.

Next.js 15React 19TypeScriptPostgreSQLPrisma+5

Shipped2026

EngStudy

An AI study platform for engineering students — a full RAG pipeline from course PDF to grounded tutor.

Next.jsReact 19TypeScriptPostgreSQLpgvector+3

Shipped2026

Real-Time Embedded Firmware

Bare-metal C firmware on the STM32 NUCLEO-F411RE — interrupts, timers, and register-level debugging.

CSTM32 HALGPIOUARTPWM+3

ActiveJan 2026 — Present

All projects

In numbers

28%

trajectory stability gained in autonomy research

100+

users on Chronos, with $2K in competitive funding

1,502

locomotive HMI error messages authored at Wabtec

awards across robotics, research, and startups

Get in touch

Seeking Summer 2027 internships in robotics, software, or controls — also open to systems engineering and software-intensive hardware roles. Always up for a conversation about distributed systems, embedded projects, or anything with a feedback loop in it.

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