Parsa Rezaei
Services

UAV & Robotics Systems

Airframe to autonomy, including the parts nobody wants to own.

Whole-vehicle work rather than one slice of it: structures, propulsion, avionics, telemetry and autonomous behaviour, plus the fabrication to actually build the thing. I have taken vehicles from a requirement to a flying, tested prototype across electric, turbine and underwater propulsion.

Engagements

What you can hire me for

  • 01Design and fabricate a purpose-built airframe for a payload or mission
  • 02Select and validate propulsion, including thrust-stand testing
  • 03Integrate and tune a flight stack (ArduPilot, PX4, MAVLink)
  • 04Implement autonomous behaviours: docking, station-keeping, swarm coordination
  • 05Diagnose a vehicle that flies but does not behave
Evidence · 6

Where this shows up

01
NASA MINDS 2025 - Exceptional Experimental Design

Air-and-Water Autonomous Vehicle

AQUAD: a single vehicle that flies to a site, submerges, manoeuvres underwater and returns to the air, on one charge. Built against a brief targeting ocean worlds such as Europa.

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02
NASA MINDS 2024 - Honourable Mention

Wireless Power and Data Transfer

Paired resonant Tesla coils beaming power and low-frequency data across a gap with no conductor between them, and the electromagnetic compatibility engineering needed to keep nearby avionics alive.

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03
NASA MINDS 2024 - Finalist

Autonomous Aerial Docking and Recharge

A heavy-lift carrier UAV acting as an airborne charging hub and data relay, letting micro-drones dock in flight to recharge, offload sensor data and borrow GPU cycles.

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04
NASA MINDS 2024 - Semi-Finalist

Morphing-Geometry Multirotor

A multirotor whose thruster pods pivot and slide on servo-driven rails, shifting from a wide-span cruise configuration to a compact footprint that fits through doorways and pipe racks.

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05
US Navy research programme

Natural-Language Flight Control

A chat-to-fly interface for UAV operators: spoken or typed instructions translated directly into flight commands by a language model running on the aircraft, not in a datacentre.

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06
With the Cal Poly Pomona Aerospace Engineering department

Turbine-Powered VTOL Platform

A VTOL airframe driven by twin JetCat P60 micro-turbines instead of electric rotors: over 13 kg of combined thrust and fixed-wing cruise speeds, while keeping multirotor agility for vertical take-off.

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