Rohan Deb and Ethan Nguyen in front of the Vilnius Cathedral thats all white and has a cross and three 3 statues atop the cathedral held by 6 large round columns

Rohan's Story

Rohan Deb '26 spent his 2023 summer interning for Astrolight Space, a startup company in Vilnius, Lithuania, that is "reinventing space communications through the use of proprietary laser data-transmission technologies."

"The project of my internship was to improve Astrolight's satellite-tracking software. Through rewriting the algorithm and configuring NVIDIA CUDA support for parallelized image processing, I sped up the software by a factor of 10. MIT prepared me directly through computer science and math courses, but also indirectly through the intense academic rigor of the school. The curricula and problem sets of the Institute are geared to make students tenacious problem-solvers, and this skill enabled me to overcome the numerous obstacles of the internship."

  • Rohan Deb (far right) with his friends in the Vilnius Old Town with Vilnius Cathedral in the back during the evening
Working at Astrolight made me realize how much I love working in tech, especially at tech startups. It's now one of my goals to found a tech startup and take to the moon—figuratively, and literally! Furthermore, I realize the eye-opening impact of living abroad and want to spend more time outside of America, especially in the Baltic, Balkan, and Slavic countries.
Rohan Deb '26
Rohan Deb and Ethan Nguyen in front of the Vilnius Cathedral thats all white and has a cross and three 3 statues atop the cathedral held by 6 large round columns
Major & Class Year
Computer Science, Economics, and Data Science (Course 6-14) & 2026
MISTI Program
Internship
Location
Vilnius, Lithuania
MISTI Host
Astrolight Space
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