Professional Experience
Aug. 2020 - Present | Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University |
Aug. 2021 - Aug. 2022 | Chair, Engineering Faculty Council (EFC), The Pennsylvania State University |
Aug. 2017 - Aug. 2020 | Associate Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University |
Aug. 2019 - Aug. 2020 | Chair of Graduate Studeis and Research Committee, Engineering Faculty Council, The Pennsylvania State University |
Aug. 2012 - Aug. 2017 | Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University at Buffalo |
Aug. 2013 - Dec. 2015 | Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University at Buffalo |
Aug. 2006 - Aug. 2012 | Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering |
Jan. 2006 - Aug. 2006 | Post-Doctorate Research Associate, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Texas A&M University |
Aug. 2000 - Dec. 2005 | Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Texas A&M University |
May 2004 - Aug. 2004 | Summer Intern, StarVision Technologies, Inc., College Station, TX. |
May 1999 - Aug. 1999 | Summer Intern, Vikram Sarabhai Space Center, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. |
Awards
Year | Awards |
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2023 | IEEE AESS Distinguished Lecturer |
2020 | Best Paper award for paper entitled “Reachability Analysis Based Tracking: Applications to Non- cooperative Space Object Tracking’ in 2020 International Conference on Dynamic Data Driven Application Systems. |
2016 | Outstanding Young Aerospace Engineer Alumni, Aerospace Engineering, Texas A&M University |
2015 | Invited Participant, National Academies Frontiers of Engineering Symposia, Arab- America Frontiers in Engineering Symposium, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia. |
2011 | NSF Career Award (CMMI Control System Program) |
2011 | AFOSR’s Young Investigator Research Award |
2010 | University at Buffalo’s “Exceptional Scholar” Young Investigator Award |
2009 | Recognized at UB Authors Recognition Ceremony |
2009 | Best student paper award for paper entitled “Decision Based Uncertainty Propagation Using Adaptive Gaussian Mixtures” at International Conference on Information Fusion |
2006 | Best paper award for paper entitled “The Partition of Unity Finite Element Approach to the Stationary Fokker-Planck Equation” at AIAA/AAS Astrodynamics Specialists Con- ference. |
2003 | Recognition by Spacecraft Technology Center (a NASA research partnership center), Col- lege Station for helping in flight testing of Starnav-I payload for STS-107 mission |
1999 | Academic Excellence Prize for good academic performance (top 5% in Institute), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur |
Professional Society
Fellow | AAS |
Associate Fellow | AIAA |
Senior Member | IEEE |
Member | ASME |
Editorship
2017 | Guest Editor | Special issue of the ASME Journal for Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control to commemorate the life, achievements, and impact of Rudolph E. Kalman |
2023-Present | Associate Editor | Journal of Astronautical Sciences |
2017-Present | Associate Editor | AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics (JGCD) |
2016-2023 | Associate editor for Space Systems | IEEE Transaction on Aerospace and Electronic Systems |