Emir Çelet

University College London · MEng Mechanical Engineering with Business Finance

London, United Kingdom

• First-year modules: Fundamentals of Materials, Fluid Mechanics, Dynamics, Mathematical Modelling and Analysis, Thermodynamics.
• Junior IC loom designer, UCL Racing Formula Student.
• IMechE Design Challenge 2026, 2nd of 50+ UCL teams.

Robert College · Turkish High School Diploma

İstanbul, Türkiye

• GPA 94.8. Academic high honours.
• Herbert Lane Award: “awarded to a senior boy elected by one's class regarding one's contributions to RC.”
• Hüseyin Pektaş Award: “awarded to a senior student who has displayed outstanding leadership qualities during their RC career.”
• Advanced Placement: Calculus BC 5, Physics C Mechanics 5, Macroeconomics 5, Microeconomics 5; Computer Science A 4, English Language & Composition 4, Physics C Electricity & Magnetism 4.

Pirelli · R&D Intern

Motorsport tyre manufacturing facility, İzmit, Türkiye

• Machine learning project within the R&D function. Details confidential.

UCL Racing Formula Student · Junior IC Loom Designer

London, United Kingdom

• Sensor selection and low-voltage design for a single integrated vehicle harness: 55 connectors, 239 terminated pins.
• RapidHarness modelling alongside an Excel pin-to-pin matrix with a custom wiring macro.

Samsonite Europe · Tooling Department Intern

Oudenaarde, Belgium

• Manufactured components for heavy-duty luggage production lines.
• Built the stage of a heat-moulding machine that stretches plastic sheet before pressing.
• First experience of working with power tools inside a high-technology manufacturing environment, in a foreign working culture.

DESA · Rotational Intern

İstanbul, Türkiye

• Summers across production, e-commerce and automation.
• Hands-on with production machinery from CNC to industrial sewing.
• More recently, internal analytics and optimisation tooling for the business.

BLang AI · Co-founder & CFO

İstanbul, Türkiye

• AI language-learning platform; grew past 60,000 users worldwide before wind-down.
• Owned linguistics, legal, financial and marketing functions.

RC Startup Factory · Co-founder

İstanbul, Türkiye

• Mentoring programme connecting student teams to VCs and founders; Shark Tank–format demo day placing thousands of dollars of seed funding.
• Now the largest club at Robert College by participation.

LaunchX Entrepreneurship Program

University of Michigan, United States

President, Robert College Student Council

İstanbul, Türkiye

• Succeeded to the presidency mid-term after a council vote removed the incumbent; led a reform of parts of a hundred-year-old constitution to make the process legitimate.
• Head organiser, Fine Arts Festival 2024: $50,000 budget, 13 sponsors, 1,500+ attendees.

Vice President, Robert College Student Council

Level Representative, Robert College Student Council

President, Robert College Model Airplane Club

Technical Lead, Destination Imagination "BanDIts"

• Turkish national champions twice; invited to Global Finals both years.

IMechE Design Challenge 2026 · Group 18, 2nd of 50+ UCL teams

University College London (ENGF0033)

• Self-contained robot climbing a 22 mm copper pipe to 2.2 m under an increasing chain load, with a rule prohibiting any programmable control.
• Led the electronics and co-led CAD; designed the analogue switch logic that replaced software sequencing, and the rack-and-pinion chain release mechanism.
• Delivered within the £50 IMechE bill-of-materials limit at £49.90, with a predicted mission time of ~102 s against a 180 s cap.

Olmazı Oldurmak · translator and audiobook narrator

Nuri M. Çolakoğlu · Storytel

• Translated the 237-page history of DESA from Turkish into English; checked and published.
• Narrated the Turkish audiobook over a week of four-hour sessions in a professional studio; credited on Storytel.

Biodesign Challenge · presenting team member

Biodesign Challenge Summit, MoMA, New York

• Robert College's “Meat of the Matter” won Outstanding High School Project. Research and website build; presented on stage.

Seen With Other Eyes

• Prepared audio lessons in mathematics and geometry for visually impaired students.

Robert College Scuba Diving Club · safety diver

• PADI Advanced Open Water and Nitrox certified; diving since age eight, 100+ dives.