Experience

  1. Co-founder & Design Engineer

    Skyrobee Aerolabs
    Led the design and development of multi-rotor UAVs for security applications and established the company’s legal structure and sales pipeline. Secured multiple contracts for FY 2023–24.

  2. Research Assistant

    MAHE Centre for Aerospace Science and Technology (CAST)
    Researched hybrid airship aerodynamics and shape optimization under Dr. Manikandan Murugaiah, using CFD to generate aerodynamic data and developed optimization algorithms.

  3. Summer Internship

    Airbus ODC
    Developed a software tool to evaluate knockdown factors for composite structures, enabling automated analysis of manufacturing defects to support engineering concessions and improved evaluation efficiency by about 70%.

  4. Autonomous Vehicle Design Head

    AeroMIT, Aerial Robotics Team
    Led the design and development of over 20 fixed-wing and multirotor UAVs across diverse missions. Mentored a subsystem team of 8 and contributed to award-winning international competition entries. Represented the team at expositions and innovation conclaves, showcasing experimental and competition builds to international researchers and officials.

Education

  1. MS Aerospace Engineering

    University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

    GPA: 3.75/4.0

    Courses undertaken:

    • AE 504 Optimal Aerospace Systems
    • AE 598 Formal Methods in Aerospace Robotics
    • AE 498 Computational Systems Engineering
    • ECE 484 Principles of Safe Autonomy
    • AE 598 Estimation of Dynamical Systems (Ongoing)
    • AE 598 Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning (Ongoing)

  2. B.Tech. Mechanical Engineering & Computational Mathematics

    Manipal Institute of Technology
    GPA: 3.5/4.0
    Undergraduate Thesis
Skills
Programming

Python, C/C++, MATLAB, Bash

Libraries & Frameworks

PyTorch, Scikit-learn, OpenCV, YOLO, OpenAI Gym, ROS, Gazebo