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Contact Information

Victor Prost

E-mail: victor.prst@gmail.com
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RESUME

ABOUT ME

I am a highly motivated PhD candidate in Mechanical Engineering at MIT passionate about mechanical design innovations with global impact. I thrive in fast-paced work collaborative environments, am able to use fundamental engineering principles and quickly develop expertise to deliver on a variety of technical projects. I have 5 years of multi-disciplinary academic research experience and I am seeking design engineering opportunities in industry to apply deep analytical knowledge and practical expertise of mechanical design, prototyping, user-centered design, manufacturing, structural mechanics, precision machine design and optimization techniques.

RESEARCH INTEREST

  • Machine/Product Design
  • Manufacturing
  • Structural Mechanics
  • Finite Element Analysis
  • Optimization
  • Applied Machine Learning
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Controls

BACKGROUND

  • M.Sc in Mechanical Engineering, MIT, 2017
  • M.Sc in Mechanical Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique, 2015
  • B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique, 2014

HONORS & AWARDS

  • MIT Thomas Sheridan Prize for Excellence in Human Machine Interaction Research (2019)
  • Runner Up Prize at the Mechanical Engineering Research Exhibition (2017)
  • 2nd Prize in de Florez Competition for Graduate Design (2016)
  • Milton Van Dyke Award - Gallery of Fluid Motion (2016)
  • Tata Center for Technology Fellowship (2016)
  • Jean Gaillard Memorial Fellowship (2015)
  • French Universtiy Boxing Champion (2014 & 2015)

STUDENT GROUPS

HOBBIES

Making things, Volleyball, Hydrofoils, Travelling, Sailing, Soccer, Windsurfing, Squash