Mel Du
CEO & Founder at Ramp USA- Claim this Profile
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Experience
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Ramp USA
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United States
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Medical Equipment Manufacturing
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1 - 100 Employee
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CEO & Founder
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May 2018 - Present
Ramp's mission is to cure disability with robotics. Today, we're building the world's lightest and fastest electric wheelchair. Tomorrow, we'll build exoskeletons to make wheelchairs obsolete. Proudly funded by Techstars and the US Air Force. Ramp's mission is to cure disability with robotics. Today, we're building the world's lightest and fastest electric wheelchair. Tomorrow, we'll build exoskeletons to make wheelchairs obsolete. Proudly funded by Techstars and the US Air Force.
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The Thiel Foundation
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United States
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Research Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Thiel Fellow 2019
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Jul 2019 - Jul 2021
The Thiel Fellowship awards $100,000 to young people who want to build new things instead of sitting in a classroom. Recipients are required to drop out of school to pursue their ventures full-time. The Thiel Fellowship awards $100,000 to young people who want to build new things instead of sitting in a classroom. Recipients are required to drop out of school to pursue their ventures full-time.
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NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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United States
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Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
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700 & Above Employee
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Team Leader, Micro-G NExT Initiative
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Jan 2015 - Aug 2015
EVA (spacewalk) tool design, supporting the Asteroid Redirect Mission. Working with NASA astronauts, engineers, and divers in simulated micro-gravity. EVA (spacewalk) tool design, supporting the Asteroid Redirect Mission. Working with NASA astronauts, engineers, and divers in simulated micro-gravity.
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Rice University
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Higher Education
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1 - 100 Employee
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ECE Graduate Research Intern
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Jun 2013 - Aug 2013
Highschool internship working in cleanrooms fabricating and analyzing nanomaterials. Synthesizing 2D Tantalum-Disulfide via Chemical Vapor Deposition for the first time ever recorded. http://kono.rice.edu/research/ Highschool internship working in cleanrooms fabricating and analyzing nanomaterials. Synthesizing 2D Tantalum-Disulfide via Chemical Vapor Deposition for the first time ever recorded. http://kono.rice.edu/research/
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Education
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Trinity University
Engineering Science