Hi, I'm Jason!
I'm passionate about building things that matter.

I'm a returning master's student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, specializing in computer hardware at the Grainger College of Engineering. I'm interested in robotics, visual design, and music, and this site is a personal portfolio to some of my work.

Jason Mei

Projects

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Fall 2025 — Summer 2026
Teleop

Model-Based Shared Autonomy for Robust Teleoperation

MS thesis: developing a teleoperation system for a mobile manipulator robot.

Ongoing
quack

quack. — 30lb Combat Robot

A 30lb modular robot built to compete at NHRL and Robobrawl 2026.

Completed Feb 2025 — Competing
BulletRevisor

BulletRevisor — Resume Revisor

An app that tailors LaTeX resume bullet points to job descriptions using embedding similarity.

Ongoing
BOMB

The BOMB — Telemetry Board

Battlebots Onboard Monitoring Board, hopefully revolutionizing combat robotics data.

Ongoing
Humanoid

Humanoid Sit-Down Control

A PPO reinforcement learning algorithm to teach a humanoid to sit.

Completed Dec 2025
FeatherSpark

FeatherSpark Switch

A featherweight anti-spark combat robotics switch developedfrom the ground up.

Completed Nov 2025
Fall 2024 — Summer 2025
Modulo

Modulo 100% — Custom FPGA Keyboard

A Modular keyboard with FPGA-based ultra-low latency input processing.

Paused Aug 2025
Whack

Whack! — 30lb Combat Robot

A 30lb horizontal undercutter built for NHRL and Robobrawl X.

Completed Jun 2025
Speaker Recognition

Real-Time Speaker Recognition

An on-device Android app for live speaker identification.

Completed May 2025
CRACK V3

CRACK? V3 — 30lb Combat Robot

The first fully autonomous featherweight combat robot ever.

Completed May 2025
Robobrawl X

Robobrawl X

Led logistics of Robobrawl's landmark tenth year as president.

Completed Apr 2025
Illinix OS

Illinix OS — ECE391 Final Project

A RISC-V Unix Operating System for Computer Systems Engineering.

Completed Dec 2024
Fall 2023 — Summer 2024
Apteryx

Apteryx — 1lb Combat Robot

A 1lb Kiwi-drive crusher for the MRCA Plastic Antweight division.

Completed Jul 2024
CRACK V2

CRACK? V2 — 30lb Combat Robot

A redesigned hammer-axe robot for NHRL, Robobrawl, and NHRL Teams.

Completed Jun 2024
BABA IS YOU

BABA IS YOU — ECE385 Final Project

A video game port onto an FPGA board in SystemVerilog and C.

Completed May 2024
NACR

NACR — 1lb Combat Robot

A 1lb autonomous undercutter for ECE220 and ECE110 Honors.

Completed Nov 2023
GPA Analysis

GPA Analysis over Time at UIUC

A data analysis programming document tracking UIUC GPA changes from 2010 onward.

Completed Oct 2023
Fall 2022 — Summer 2023
ISC Telemetry

ISC Telemetry UI Redesign

An overhauled Illini Solar Car's telemetry app designed for the end user.

Passed on Sep 2023
Samson

Samson and Delilah for a Quartet

An arrangement piece composed for a string quartet.

Completed Aug 2023
Electrobyte

Electrobyte Labs

A small company bringing PC building to the neighborhood.

Completed May 2024
Robobrawl Committee

Robobrawl Committee

Ran UIUC's Robobrawl livestream at Engineering Open House 2023.

Completed Apr 2023
CRACK V1

CRACK? — 30lb Combat Robot

A 30lb overhead hammer-axe robot for Robobrawl.

Completed Mar 2023
Prior to Fall 2022 — High School
Nintendo

An Homage to Nintendo

A piece written and conducted, performed at the Spring Concert.

Completed May 2022
Badger

Badger — FTC Robotics

A FTC robot that won a qualifier and competed at regionals.

Completed Mar 2022
jb_neon

jb_neon — CS:GO Map

A custom Counter-Strike map in Hammer SDK.

Completed Nov 2021
VRC

99809A — VRC Robotics

A VEX robot qualifying for Southern NY State Championships.

Completed Apr 2021

Designs

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I occasionally dabble in visual design work, primarily for clubs that I participate in.

iRobotics Posters

iRobotics Posters

Fall 2025 / Spring 2026 — Adobe Photoshop posters for iRobotics teams. The high-resolution versions of the posters are downloadable here.

quack design

quack. Brand

Fall 2025 — Logo and sticker design for the quack. combat robot. More info about the actual robot here.

Robobrawl X design

Robobrawl X Brand Package

Fall 2024 / Spring 2025 — Stream elements, merchandise, and logos for the tenth anniversary. More info about the actual event (and my logistics work) here.

Apteryx design

Apteryx Logo

Summer 2024 — V-Tuber-themed kiwi logo for the Apteryx antweight robot. More info about the actual robot here.

CRACK logo

CRACK? Logo

Spring 2023 — Weapon-shaped logo turned into team hoodies. More info about the actual robot here.

DIY Illini

DIY Illini Rebrand

Spring 2023 — Logo redesign, fliers, and membership card system.

HabitApp

HabitApp UI/UX

Fall 2022 — Gamified productivity app design for CS124 Honors.

About

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Jason Mei

Hi, nice to meet you!

I entered UIUC as an Information Sciences major and graduated in May 2025 with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering with highest honors. I'm now a returning master's student specializing in computer hardware at the Grainger College of Engineering.

I've grown up with robotics — from First Lego League in elementary school to my current presidency of iRobotics, the largest robotics RSO on campus. I try to involve myself with practical robotics development as much as possible.

When I'm not being productive, working on passion projects, or drowning in schoolwork, I enjoy playing video games, performing and composing music, and being bad at volleyball.

Combat RoboticsFirmware Development TeleoperationVisual Design PCB DevelopmentMusic Composition Reinforcement Learning