Harshad Kunte
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Harshad Kunte is from San Francisco Bay Area. Harshad works in the following industries: "Automotive". Harshad is currently Sr Staff Systems Design/Architecture Engineer at Tesla. In Harshad's previous role as a Staff Control Systems Engineer at Tesla, Harshad worked in San Francisco Bay Area until Aug 2020. Prior to joining Tesla, Harshad was a Senior Control Systems Engineer at Tesla and held the position of Senior Control Systems Engineer at San Francisco Bay Area. Prior to that, Harshad was a Systems Design/Architecture Engineer - Powertrain Architecture at Tesla, based in San Francisco Bay Area from Jun 2014 to Nov 2015. Harshad started working as Graduate Research Assistant at Penn State University in University Park, PA in Jan 2013. From May 2013 to Aug 2013, Harshad was Summer Intern at The MathWorks, based in Greater Boston Area. Prior to that, Harshad was a Co-Team Leader at IIT Bombay Racing, based in Mumbai Area, India from Dec 2010 to Aug 2012. Harshad started working as Engineering Intern at ITC Limited in Bengaluru Area, India in May 2011.
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I lead the architecture and development of thermal control algorithms and software for Tesla’s vehicles. These algorithms ensure that the vehicle always makes the best trade-offs between performance, range, comfort, noise, etc. to create an experience our customers will love. Key focus areas: - Algorithms to manage complex thermal requirements of the battery, motors, power electronics, and on-board computers - Full stack of climate control algorithms and software for Model 3, S, & X - right from climate control UI down to actuator controls
Key role in a sponsored project on development of a battery system for an electric transit-bus application Specific focus areas included: - Model-based design and analysis of battery pack electrical and thermal management architecture - Design of estimation/control strategies for battery management - Performance testing of full scale battery systems Publication: Cleary,T., Kunte, H., Kreibick, J. (2015), "Electrical and Thermal Modeling of a Large-Format Lithium Titanate Oxide Battery System."
Delivered solutions on model-based control design and automatic code generation, to industry clients using MathWorks' Control Design & Automation products
- Co-led India's only student team developing electric Formula SAE race-cars - Co-led design and development of the vehicle's HV Li-ion battery system and safety systems - Established relationships with vendors for sensitive, high-performance components - Set up improved design processes, organizational structure, and induction process to sustain the resource constrained project
- Led a project to improve key production quality metrics of India's leading brand of cigarettes - Root causes were quantified and solutions implemented on the production line - The project was presented to the company CTO and Operations lead
- Prototyped a novel pneumatic automated transmission for heavy vehicle powertrains - Developed the system's supervisory control strategy & executed accelerated reliability testing - System used low cost pneumatic actuation, resulting in 45% cost-down compared to benchmark