Rutgers SCAR VEXU
Competition robotics design and driving work during the 2025-2026 season, including more than 200 CAD hours and full robot design responsibility.
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Suzeyu Cui | Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, and Research
I design CAD-heavy robots, build research tools, and develop models where hardware, control systems, and data meet. I am a Rutgers University mechanical engineering student focused on robotics, controls, rapid prototyping, and applied research.
Selected work
FIRE Robotics
Captain and Head of Finance for a 30+ member robotics team with technical, fundraising, and outreach responsibility. The team secured $3,200 in sponsorships and organized outreach for more than 1,000 attendees.
LHS Rocketry Team 1
Co-captain of a school aerospace organization that grew into a 50+ member technical team with launches, mentorship, and community demonstrations.
Research record
Rutgers Summer Science Program
Accepted to a Summer 2026 research program centered on flying insects and flapping robots, with a focus on bio-inspired motion and the mechanics behind wing-driven flight.
Eye-Gaze-Controlled Robotics
Assistive robotics research exploring gaze direction as an input signal for selecting or guiding robotic movement when conventional input devices are difficult to use.
Failure Data for Reinforcement Learning
Published research on optimizing reinforcement learning with failure data and shifted Gaussian distributions using a robotic arm.
PFAS Water Treatment Research
Environmental engineering research with Dr. Yang Deng on how granular activated carbon and iron ions can help clear PFAS from water.
Interactive tools
- CAD Viewer: open the Rutgers SCAR VEXU assembly in Onshape.
- Rock Modeling Lab: analyze fracture traces and inspect field-sample measurements.
- Cuistock Model: private forecasting dashboard built around deployed data workflows.