Osvy Rodriguez, a UROP in the Signal Kinetics group, recounts his journey to MIT and how he began working with Signal Kinetics group head Fadel Adib on a recent project.
Osvy came to the US as a Cuban refugee, and he learned English in three to four months in order to take the SAT. He received his associate's degree in electrical engineering from Miami Dade College, then transferred to MIT, where he became very interested in the work of Adib's group at the Media Lab—specifically a project focusing on underwater to air communication technology that paves the way for wireless IoT sensors.