Cameron Lewis received his bachelor’s degree in computer engineering in 2019 from Howard University, where he is a fourth-year electrical engineering PhD student focused on reconfigurable hardware to create real-time autonomous platforms. In 2023, he published and twice presented his work on implementing a field programmable gate array (FPGA)-based bundle adjustment on a FPGA-based simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) autonomous platform. He is a current fellow of both the Howard Hampton Morgan Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate and the National GEM Consortium — both of which are dedicated to increasing the number of URMs pursuing and earning advanced degrees in STEM disciplines. An active mentor at Howard, Lewis has helped facilitate two SLAMERS Virtual Boot Camps as well as NASA RockOn!, in which he guided 20 undergraduates in building a payload that was flown at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility. He has completed both software and hardware internships at Johns Hopkins University, Qualcomm, Boeing, CoachMePlus, and MITRE, held a variety of leadership positions with the National Society of Black Engineers, and was a four-year member of the Howard men’s varsity basketball team. He looks forward to teaching the next generation of students about the fundamentals of electrical and computer engineering.

Research Interests

FPGA SLAM-based Autonomous Platform