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2020-21 MIT Men's Lightweight Crew Roster

Jose Lavariega

  • Height 5-6
  • Class Junior
  • Hometown Monterrey, Mexico
  • High School Prepa Tec Campus Eugenio Garza Sada
  • Major Aerospace Engineering

Biography

2020-21
- Did not compete as the season was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic

2019-20 [COMPLETE BOATINGS]
- Appeared in one event
- Was the cox of the Lightweight 4+ that finished 14th at the Head of the Charles (10/20)

2018-19: [COMPLETE BOATINGS]
- Appeared in three events
- Was the coxswain of the V4+ that finished fourth in the Grand Final at the Knecht Cup (4/14)

Favorite Sports Memory:
- First time coxing the Head of the Charles on a 4+.

Favorite Moment as an MIT Student-Athlete:
- First time coxing the Head of the Charles on a 4+.

Off the Water at MIT:
- Majoring in aerospace engineering, with a minor in statistics and data science, and a concentration in robotics
- Avionics hardware engineering intern at Blue Origin during the summer of vehicle New Shepard's first human flight
- Autonomy and Flight Controls engineering intern at Sikorsky, working on the Black Hawk helicopter
- Research and electronics engineering intern at Earthly Dynamics Corporation, working with autonomous parafoil systems
- Conducting research in the Biomimetic Robotics Lab in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, working with control systems for quadruped robotics
- Researched electrospray propulsion thrusters at the Space Propulsion Lab
- Researched structure development at the Laboratory for Aviation and the Environment
- Researched magnetometer calibration at the Weiss Lab, working for NASA Psyche Mission
- CoC at Students for the Exploration and Development of Space
- Machine Intelligence Community
- GNC Systems Lead at SEDS CubeSat
- State Estimation Subteam lead
- MIT Driverless

High School:
- Graduated from Prepa Tec Campus Eugenio Garza Sada
- Head of Robotics Team engineering
- Higia Technologies co-founder and head of research (startup focusing on early detection of breast cancer)
- FIRST Robotics Competition engineering lead for Team 4635
- Founding member of FIRST Robotics Competition Team 5499
- Dean's List finalist at First Robotics Competition

Historical Player Information

  • 2018-19First Year

    5'6"
  • 2019-20Sophomore

    5'6"
  • 2020-21Junior

    5'6"