Mason John Hawver

Projects

Skills

Languages

RustC++CPythonCUDABash

Embedded and Hardware

FreeRTOSESP32LoRaSPII2CUARTEthernetRDMA (RoCEv2)GPUDirectFPGA data paths

Infrastructure and Testing

LinuxGitgRPCPodmank3sQEMUKVMGitLab CIHardware-in-the-loop testing

Applied Mathematics

State estimationKalman filteringControl systemsComputer visionMachine learningPretrainingRay tracingVoxel meshing

Experience and education

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  Remote Firework Detonator

  2026

  Two ESP32 boards that arm and fire fireworks over LoRa, using a custom MAC layer and a protobuf command set.

  EmbeddedLoRaFreeRTOSProtobufESP32Networking

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  Multisensory Pretraining for Contact-Rich Manipulation

  2023–2025 · CSCI 5980 Deep Learning for Robotics, Robotics Perception and Manipulation Lab, University of Minnesota · advised by Karthik Desingh · created with Ryan Diaz, Hanchen Cui and Shirley Su

  Pretraining a multimodal encoder on RGB, depth, segmentation and force-torque data to improve robot manipulation in contact-rich tasks.

  RoboticsMachine learningMultimodalPyTorchSimulation

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  Autonomous Navigation and Collision Avoidance for Drones

  2024 · CSCI 5561 Computer Vision, University of Minnesota · advised by Junaed Sattar · created with Marcus Berg and Vaagishwaran Sivakumar

  A simulated forest, a sampling-based expert planner, and a student policy trained to fly through it from depth images alone.

  Computer visionRoboticsOpenGLC++PyTorchImitation learning

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  Ray Tracer

  2023 · CSCI 5607 Fundamentals of Computer Graphics, University of Minnesota

  A ray tracer written from scratch in C with no external libraries.

  GraphicsCRay tracingBVHRendering

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