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About Me

Hi, I'm Omar, a 22-year-old Mechanical Engineering MSc student at ETH Zurich focused on thermal management and advanced cooling solutions for high heat-flux electronics. I completed my Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering at EPFL, where I built a strong foundation in design, simulation, and hands-on prototyping, and I enjoy turning ideas into working hardware by combining CFD, FEA, experiments, and practical engineering trade-offs. Outside work and studies, I enjoy skiing in the Alps, going to the gym, spending time with friends, and building side projects like FPV drones, an electric skateboard, and a personal mini-ITX computer.

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Skills

Battery and Energy Storage Systems: HV battery pack architecture, Cell evaluation & characterization, Busbar & conductor layout, Cooling plate design, Pack structural validation, Safety & HV testing procedures
Thermal & Fluids: CFD (ANSYS Fluent, COMSOL, StarCCM+), Heat Exchanger modeling, High density heat flux cooling system design, CHT
Simulation & Design: FEA (Abaqus, ANSYS ACP/Mechanical), Topology optimisation, MATLAB Simulink
Design & Manufacturing: CAD (Siemens NX, 3DX, nTop), Composite Design, CNC/SLS, 3D printing
Programming & Data: Python, LabVIEW, MATLAB, C, SLURM/HPC computing
Soft Skills: Leadership, Project Management, Cross-disciplinary collaboration, Problem-Solving, Engineering judgment & ownership

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Projects

Experience

Work Experience

Powertrain – Team Member

Zurich, Switzerland

AMZ Racing – Formula Student

Sep 2025 to Present

Designed and optimized a TPMS lattice heat exchanger, using implicit modeling to reduce pressure drop and improve heat transfer.
Performed steady-state and transient conjugate heat transfer (CHT) CFD simulations in STAR-CCM+, scaling to 60M-cell models on ETH HPC infrastructure.
Engineered a SiC inverter cold plate using micro-channel topology optimization, minimizing temperature gradient and pressure drop while dissipating high heat fluxes (~80 kW/m²).

Battery & Energy Storage Systems – Team Leader

Lausanne, Switzerland

EPFL Racing – Formula Student

Sep 2024 – Sep 2025

Designed and implemented a battery liquid cooling system using conjugate heat transfer CFD, achieving a 15°C temperature reduction while supporting up to 80 kW in harsh summer conditions.
Led and mentored a 7-person multidisciplinary team to develop high- and low-voltage battery systems within 9 months, ensuring cross-team collaboration and delivery readiness.
Managed project planning and deliverables using Gantt-based scheduling, ensuring readiness for testing and competition deadlines.
Designed and built a high-voltage battery achieving a 25% weight reduction, contributing to the lightest and most successful pack in team history.
Developed a State of Charge (SoC) estimator using Coulomb counting to improve race energy prediction accuracy.
Simulated composite casing performance using ANSYS ACP, selecting an optimal layup for minimum mass and high toughness.
Performed HV setup testing and safety validation in compliance with European LVD 2014/35/EU, ensuring safe operation in high-voltage environments.
Built race-energy discharge simulations using MATLAB/Simulink and digital-twin methods to estimate required energy and define operating scenarios.
Prepared structural equivalency reports to validate accumulator integrity and compliance.

Battery & Energy Storage Systems – Team Member

Lausanne, Switzerland

EPFL Racing – Formula Student

Sep 2024 – Sep 2025

Evaluated lithium-polymer cells for high-current discharge, efficiency, and thermal behavior to maximize energy density and performance.
Selected internal container materials compliant with competition regulations, ensuring survivability under loads up to 40g.
Conducted FEA in Abaqus on acceleration and dynamic loading cases to assess battery structural response.
Earned HV3 certification for working in high-voltage environments.

Formula Student

Germany, Switzerland, Czech Republic & Spain

EPFL Racing – Formula Student

Jul 2025 – Aug 2025

Defended and justified engineering design choices through quantitative analysis in front of expert judges during international design events.
Operated under tight deadlines and high-pressure conditions while maintaining strong attention to detail, safety, and reliability.

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Research

Three-Dimensional LVAE for Physics Surrogates

Zurich, Switzerland

ETH Zurich

Spring 2026

Developed 3D latent-variable autoencoder architectures for physics-based surrogate modeling (CFD/FEA).
Implemented models in PyTorch with spectral normalization for improved stability and K-Lipschitz regularization.
Applied models to datasets featuring complex geometry and state-variable variation.
(Planned) Surrogate-driven optimization of 3D geometries and topologies.

Dynamic Compression Behavior of 3D Plate Lattices

Zurich, Switzerland

ETH Zurich

Sep 2025 to Jan 2026

Conducted a numerical investigation of energy-absorbing metamaterial lattices under uniaxial compression.
Compared SC, BCC, and FCC plate-lattice architectures for stiffness, failure modes, and specific energy absorption.
Studied the influence of material selection, strain rate, and unit-cell count using nonlinear finite element simulations.
Implemented shell-based lattice models and rate-dependent plasticity/damage formulations in Abaqus.

Formula Student High Voltage Accumulator

Lausanne, Switzerland

EPFL

Spring 2025

Developed an air cooling system using ANSYS Fluent, tested and validated using real-time data.
Designed a high-voltage battery pack (600 V, 7.1 kWh) for the EPFL Racing team through detailed analysis of different cells’ discharge curves.
Designed the internal pack structure in CAD and validated it via FEA for high g-force robustness.
Selected and modeled composite and polymer materials for lightweight structural durability.