Michael Pantano

Michael Pantano

I build the whole chain: the hardware, the firmware that runs it, and the software that carries the data off it.

So far that has meant a drilling rig, a pulsed power lab, and a satellite ground station. Different problems, same job each time: getting something physical into a form software can act on. RF and analog design is where I want to do that next.

Experience

  1. Summers –

    Dig Energy

    Engineering Intern

    Three summers at a geothermal drilling startup. This past summer, I built two systems now in use: an inline pressure and flow instrument, and a cellular gateway that keeps borehole sensor data online with no network on site.

  2. Summer

    H6 Systems

    Engineering Intern

    My first summer in pulsed power and RF. I worked on the electronics side: circuit simulation, high-voltage switching hardware, control electronics, and lab measurement.

  3. –present

    Brown Space Engineering

    Communications Engineer

    My second year on the CubeSat team. My first year I picked the UHF power amplifier and ran RF chain power analysis. This year I am working on an autonomous UHF and S-band satellite ground station: antennas, rotator, RF front end, and control software.

  4. –

    Brown Office of Residential Life

    Community Coordinator

Coursework

Fall 2026

  • ENGN 0510Electricity and Magnetism
  • ENGN 1560Applications in Microwave Engineering
  • ENGN 1570Linear System Analysis
  • APMA 0350Applied Ordinary Differential Equations

Spring 2026

  • ENGN 0040Statics and Dynamics
  • ENGN 0520Circuits and Signals
  • CSCI 0200Data Structures and Algorithms
  • CSCI 1970Agentic Coding

Fall 2025

  • ENGN 0030Introduction to Engineering
  • CSCI 0150Object-Oriented Programming
  • MATH 0200Multivariable Calculus
  • ITAL 0950Introduction to Italian Cinema

Interests

  • RF and microwave
  • Embedded systems
  • Robotics and controls
  • Amateur radio

Contact