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Avik Vaish is currently a Vehicle Firmware Intern at Tesla, having joined the company in January 2024. Prior to this role, Avik served as Circuit Design Lead and Project Lead at Illini Electric Motorsports from August 2021 to January 2024. During the summer of 2023, Avik worked as an Embedded Software Engineer at Texas Instruments and held various engineering positions at Caterpillar Inc. from May 2022 to May 2023, including Engineering Parallel Coop and Controls Engineering Intern. Additionally, Avik contributed as an Engineering Learning Assistant for ENG 100 at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in late 2023 and worked as a Course Assistant for ECE 120 in early 2022. Earlier experience includes serving as Lead Instructor and Program Instructor at Code Ninjas from April 2020 to August 2021. Avik is pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, expected to graduate in May 2025, and holds a high school diploma from Neuqua Valley High School, completed in 2021.