Hi, I’m Becca.

Junior at Harvard College, studying electrical engineering.

Becca Pollard standing on a lawn in a city park, wearing a light blue jumper and a backpack, smiling at the camera.

Now

Harvard Microrobotics Lab
Building bio-inspired robots and their low-voltage drive electronics, and a biodegradable transmitter
CS50 course assistant
Office hours for Harvard's introductory computer science course
Roberts Family Fellow
Harvard Undergraduate Technology Innovation Fellows, 2026

Skills

Board and circuit

KiCad
EasyEDA
LTspice
Flex and rigid PCB design
PCB fabrication and assembly
Oscilloscopes and lab instrumentation

Embedded and control

C firmware
MSPM0
Arduino
H-bridge and PWM motor drive
ROS 2
Simulink and Simscape

Data and modelling

Python
C++
R
SQL
Bash
Hail and Spark
TensorFlow
Scikit-learn
XGBoost

Selected work

Macro photograph of a polyimide flex circuit board carrying two integrated circuits and copper traces, with a one millimetre scale bar showing the board is a few millimetres across.

Harvard Microrobotics Lab, 2025 to present

Microrobotics Lab electronics

Driving electronics light enough to ride on a robot the size of a housefly.

18 mg

Board mass, driving a flapping wing

Two stacked plots. The detector's test statistic tracks its baseline until an attack begins, then falls sharply through the threshold, and the alarm below it switches from off to fired.

Harvard ES145 and independent research, 2025 to present

Cybervert

A private signal hidden in an inverter's control loop, so faked sensor data gives itself away.

98.4%

Attacks detected, 2.6% false alarms

Bar chart of the percentage of examined mutations flagged in each of eight gnomAD ancestry groups, ranging from about 59 to 77 per cent. The African ancestry group is highest.

Wilkerson Lab (USU) and NCI Cancer Data Science Lab, 2021 to 2024

alleleFinder

Inherited variants that a cancer database had mislabelled as tumour mutations, and the ancestry gap in that error.

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Ancestry groups compared, gnomAD against COSMIC

Contact

bpollard@college.harvard.edu