PROJECT /

2025-Present

HARDWARE / INFRASTRUCTURE

Calcite Labs - Self-Sensing Concrete

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✦ RECOGNITION

DN Hacks, Y-Prize

Co-founded a hardtech startup developing conductive concrete that senses structural strain, improves structural health, and accelerates construction automation.

THE QUESTION

What if concrete could tell us what was happening inside it?

BUILT / TESTED


  • Developed conductive concrete composites using recycled carbon fibers.

  • Designed in LTspice four-probe AC measurement circuitry to detect structural strain through electrical resistance.

  • Integrated NI LabVIEW and DAQ instrumentation for synchronized data acquisition.

  • Characterized piezoresistive response under Instron compression testing up to 2.4 MPa.

  • Developed Python signal-processing and 3D visualization systems for structural anomaly detection.

  • Secured $105k in Letters of Interest from critical infrastructure companies

TOOLS

LTspice · NI LabVIEW · Analog Discovery 3 · Oscilloscope · Function Generator · Instron 4206 · Python · Next.js

ARTIFACTS

White Paper HERE
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Yuki Qian.

Electrical Engineering @ Penn. Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

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