Gabriel Dimonde's CV

• Email: gabriel.jon.dimonde@proton.me
• Location: Lafayette, LA
• Website: gabrieldimon.de
• LinkedIn: gabriel-dimonde

Education

University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Mechanical Engineering

BS

Lafayette, LA

Aug 2019 – May 2023

• GPA: 3.79/4.00

• Senior capstone: Friction Stir Extrusion Machine (IMECE2025 publication)

Experience

University of Louisiana at Lafayette, PhD Student

Lafayette, LA

Aug 2025 – present

9 months

• Researching geodesic path planning on Riemannian manifolds

• Studying Gauss's Principle of Least Constraint

• Low-power robotic sensing

L3Harris, Associate, Field Engineer

Broussard, LA

Jan 2024 – Aug 2025

1 year 8 months

• Collaborated with team to identify electrical drawing vs. implementation differences

• Increased responsibilities during coworkers' international travel

• Generated BOM for sub-unit with incomplete data, completing key project task

• Fixed complex electrical issues through schematic review and troubleshooting

• Transitioned to new segment, adapted within a week, helping to meet tight deadlines

• Developed a PLC program for actuator control with relays

• Created relay control circuit for the actuator and PLC

• Identified and resolved a critical AC system electrical fault, increasing system reliability

• Analyzed and repaired engine bay lighting circuits by interpreting electrical drawings

• Documented E-STOP circuit, improving maintenance efficiency of an old ASV

• Field tested CW78 and CW76 autonomous surface vehicles at a local lake

• Fabricated an aluminum moon-pool cover for the C-Target, reducing water drag

• Gained CLI proficiency; developed recursive grep command to automate file search

• Configured networks via CLI, wrote bash script for VPN tunnel splitting

• Diagnosed radar issue via manufacturer collaboration

University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Undergraduate Student Researcher

Lafayette, LA

Sept 2022 – Sept 2023

1 year 1 month

• Spearheaded material testing for Martian regolith self-healing concrete

• Designed, 3D printed, and molded cube and cylinder sample molds

• Designed 3D-printable Compressmeter/Extensometer, reducing costs by ~$500

• Conducted ASTM-standard cube compression tests

• Assisted chemical engineers with regolith mixing and brick baking

BlueCollar Engineering and Manufacturing, Intern

Lafayette, LA

Dec 2020 – Aug 2022

1 year 9 months

• Created to-scale floor plan of an ~50,000 sq-ft manufacturing plant using AutoCAD

• Modeled bollards with Autodesk Inventor

• Determined bollard material with FEA simulation

• Generated and redlined drawings for each bollard and other designs

• Manufactured parts with a Bridgeport milling machine

• Established fast maintenance routines for shop equipment, ensuring maximum lifetime

• Developed Autodesk tutorials to streamline part library additions

Projects

Friction Stir Extrusion Machine

Dec 2023 – May 2024

• Identified two sources of EMI noise in transducer data, improving data integrity to ±2 lbs

• Completed a 3×3 test matrix — 100% of sponsor's goal

• Assisted in various PLC code improvements in ladder logic form

• Directed a cross-functional team, ensuring all contributed to project success

Digital Twin — 8-DOF Robotic Arm

May 2023 – Aug 2023

• Learned Wolfram Mathematica to model the robotic arm

• Applied homogeneous transformations between body frames

• Studied inverse kinematics and difficulty of closed-form solutions

• Applied basic control theory to individual DOF to achieve desired end-effector position

CNN vs Fully Connected Image Classifier

Jan 2023 – May 2023

• Trained autoencoders using TensorFlow and Keras to reconstruct iron microstructures

• Developed classifiers using a neural network and autoencoder layers

• Evaluated classifier performance (~60% correct)

• Plotted error types with confusion matrices

ATV Constant-Mesh Transmission

Jan 2022 – May 2022

• Measured and dynamically modeled ATV transmission parts in SolidWorks

Publications

Temperature and Force While Forming A1100 Round Solid Cylinders in a Friction Stir Extrusion Machine

Oct 2025

William J. Emblom, Jhonatan Gil Romero, Gabriel Dimonde, Alaric Bloss, Grahm Casse, Paul Daugereau, Jacob Garcia, Javen Bolden, Scott W. Wagner, Vinh Nguyen, Paul Darby

10.1115/IMECE2025-164201 (Proc. ASME Int. Mech. Eng. Congr. Exp. (IMECE2025))

Funding

Louisiana Board of Regents GRASS

Summer 2026

• $10,000 — Integrated trajectory planning and control for scalable multi-UAV crop monitoring in smart agriculture

• Graduate Researcher under PI Dr. Boyang Zhang

Skills

Programming: Python, Java, MATLAB, ROS2, PLC Ladder Logic, Structured Text, Mathematica

Hardware: 3D Printing, Electrical Troubleshooting

Tools: Linux CLI, Autodesk Inventor, SolidWorks, FreeCAD, Gazebo Harmonic

Teamwork: Documentation, Communication, Collaboration