About
I’m Jasper Japp, a final-year Engineering (Honours) student at the Australian National University, majoring in Electronics & Communication Systems with a minor in Mechatronic Systems. My work sits at the intersection of aerodynamics & composites, embedded systems, and machine learning for sensing. I focus on turning complex, messy problems into clean, testable designs that work in practice.
What I’m into
- ANU Solar Racing — Aero & Structures: shaped a low-drag catamaran body, automated Fluent runs with Python, and manufactured & full carbon-fibre car and stucture. Optimised structrual layout with interfacing between all electrical and mechanical systems.
- ANU Solar Racing — Mechanical Design: Designed four bar linkage systems for driver egress and for solar array tilting.
- Early bushfire detection: built a GRU/GMM-VAE and a hybrid STFT-CNN and GRU-VAE pipeline on eCO₂/TVOC streams and designed experiment-level decision rules.
Tooling I reach for
SolidWorks · ANSYS Fluent · Python (automation & data) · MATLAB/Simulink · microcontrollers · a lot of careful measurement.
Outside of Engineering
I enjoy brewing a really good cup of coffee, skiing when I can, and playing team sports. I'm also always experimenting with new ways to bring various projects to life and learning new skills, like building this website.