My name is Daniil Rose. I am an integrated undergraduate-graduate (IUG) student at The Pennsylvania State University (WE ARE!)- concurrently pursuing a master's in international affairs, a Bachelor of Science in computer engineering, and a Bachelor of Science in German under the supervision of Dr. Larry Catá Backer. At Penn State, I serve as the President of the 75th Assembly of the Graduate and Professional Student Association, or GPSA. I also have the honor of serving as the emcee for Penn State Homecoming (2025).

I am passionate about science and technology policy, and seek to use my experience in engineering and leadership to further the world of policy. In particular, I actively research the institutional management of the research enterprise through a semiotic lens. On the engineering side, I have experience in a variety of fields: from working on bomb-disposal robots (in partnership with Oak Ridge National Laboratory) to experience developing satellites that have gone to space!

This past summer, I worked for IEEE in Washington D.C., writing a policy proposal about research translation. I previously interned at RTD Embedded Technologies and continued working there throughout the 2024 - 2025 school year, spearheading a new IoT product line, designing firmware for embedded systems and designing new processes to enable smoother operations for manufacturing. Before that, I worked as a systems engineering intern at Peraton Remotec, an embedded systems engineer at Quub, a start-up satellite firm, which included mechanical and electrical components. I designed PCBs and mechanical parts in CAD programs such as KiCad, Eagle, SolidWorks, and Fusion 360, and programmed my systems using the C, Rust, and Python languages.