Keith Christman

I'm a mechanical and mechatronics engineer focused on ride dynamics. My work runs from the very physical — dropper posts and carbon wheelsets carried from free-body diagram to mass production — to the computational, building physics models and computer-vision systems that turn rider feel into something measurable.

I tend to work end to end: sketch, CAD, FEA, the custom electronics and data loggers needed to test a thing, and the MATLAB models that make sense of the data. I like problems where the answer isn't just a better part but a better way of understanding what "better" even means — like defining an ideal suspension setup as a balanced front-and-rear natural frequency, then measuring it from a single camera.

Recent work includes a single-degree-of-freedom suspension model paired with a pose-tracking vision system for rider center-of-gravity, a linear electromagnetic energy-harvesting transducer, and a net-zero energy platform with predictive thermal control as my master's thesis.

The fastest way to reach me is by email.