Electrical Engineering & Visual Arts (at Princeton, for now)

Hi, I'm Audrey! I'm a junior at Princeton majoring in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Visual Arts.

I'm particularly interested in light and communications, on both a scientific and visual level. I'm currently working with both in Princeton's Lightwave Communications Resaerch Lab under Paul Prucnal! In my artwork, I'm figuring out how to visually represent light with pieces necessitating nontraditional viewer interactions.

Sidequests are just as important to me as my work. We do not create in a bubble; hence, when I'm not working on a project, you can find me meeting new people or putting myself in uncomfortably new situations to learn more about the anthropocene. My favorite avenues to do so are figure skating, hiking, reading, running, and travelling.

I firmly believe that the best engineering is people-centric. If you also love talking engineering, physics, art, books, or really anything else nerdy, reach out to me! I love new friends :)

three girls hugging and standing on a thin slab of rock jutting out from a mountain

two girls hugging, standing in front of a frozen waterfall

a girl in a blue figure skating dress in a spotlight, holding her leg up in a split behind her

Programming Languages: Python, MATLAB, Java, C++, Bash, HTML, CSS, Embedded C
Tools and Systems: Unix, iPerf, tcpdump, Wireshark, KiCad, Arduino, Git, Circuit Design, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator

Starlink

(May - Aug 2025)

As an engineering intern on the Sales Architecture Team, I developed Starlink Global Enterprise Sales's first testing and reporting suite for network performance, implementing a test lab and network using UNIX system tools (iperf, tcpdump, ping), Python, routing and switching protocols. With this test suite, I inaugurated collaboration with external networking vendors to certify joint product offerings. Read my mentor's endorsement here.

Princeton University Laser Sensing (PULSe Lab)

(Feb 2024 - May 2025)

As an undergraduate researcher at the PULSe lab under Dr. Gerard Wysocki, I designed optical systems with RF circuits to stabilize Quantum Cascade Laser Frequency Combs, designing a double PID loop to control the amplitude modulation of an externally-injected RF signal. For more details, read my full report here, or read our publication in the CLEO 2025 proceedings here.

Robotic and Autonomous Systems Lab

(Sept - Dec 2025)

My partner and I built a fully autonomous glove-controlled car, designing and fabricating all our circuit boards from scratch, including a power distribution and motor driver board, a sensing board for speed control, an analog video demodulation board from scratch, and a flex sensor glove circuit, writing all of our own drivers in embedded C. Alongside drivers for each of our circuit boards, we also wrote Bluetooth firmware for RF transceivers for communication between the glove and the car, creating custom packets to send information.

Electronic and Photonic Devices

(Sept - Dec 2024)

I fabricated, tested, and characterized a chip on a silicon wafer with n-channel MOSFETs, photodiodes, resistor arrays, solar cells, ring oscillators, and NAND/NOR gates.

Shi Lab

(2020-2023)

I was a research intern at the Shi lab in UC San Diego's Bioengineering Department, where I used Raman spectroscopy to study lipid and protein metabolism in human muscle tissue and Drosophila ovaries. Here is one publication from my time there.

select pieces. more to come...

2025

2024

2023

(1/3) old receipts and brochures on cardboard housing a starbucks cup with a cut out brochure taped to the inside. when light shines, one sees the shadow of a tree.

(2/3) old receipts and brochures on cardboard housing a starbucks cup with a cut out brochure taped to the inside. when light shines, one sees the shadow of a tree.

(3/3) old receipts and brochures on cardboard housing a starbucks cup with a cut out brochure taped to the inside. when light shines, one sees the shadow of a tree.

Adobe Photoshop illustration, 1920 x 3160 px

2022

Adobe Photoshop illustration, 3160x3160 px

Figure Skating Coach

(Jan 2021 - Present)

I've been coaching figure skaters for 4 years (and counting!). I teach all ages -- from tots to adults -- and all levels, from absolute beginners to regional competitors, and I also choreograph for my classes! To identify and communicate balance and movement techniques which havelong been engrained into my muscle memory is no small feat, and I'm grateful for the opportunity to exercise this muscle.

Co-Captain - Princeton University Synchronized Skating Team

(May 2024 - Present)

I am co-captain of Princeton's award-winning synchronized skating team. Along with running the team of 16 skaters, I also play a large role in running the larger figure skating club, which entails managing over 90 members (including recreational skaters and members of two competition teams), organizing 6 travel competitions and 2 professional shows, and helping to manage a budget of around $20,000.

Service Focus Fellow

(Sept 2025 - Present)

I'm junior fellow for Service Focus through Princeton's Pace Center for Civic Engagement for the "Perfect City" cohort, a group run by Aaron Landsman and inspired by his own Perfect City project, which is dedicated to showing city residents, especially kids, how to use their lived experiences to influence urban planning. As part of Service Focus more broadly, I'm working on integrating service in the day-to-day life of myself and my peers.

Princeton Outdoor Action Technical Skills Trainer

(Oct 2024 - Present)

I lead outdoor orientation trips for incoming freshmen! I take groups of 14-16 pre-frosh on 4-day backcountry orientation camping trips, letting them know the real deal about Princeton before they dive into the academic year. Throughout the school year, I teach technical skills to OA leaders-in-training and lead weekend day-hiking trips to promote the mental and physical benefits of the outdoors.
My own OA trip was what first got me into the outdors. I ♡ OA!

audrey zeng

Electrical Engineering & Visual Arts (at Princeton, for now)