Currently, I am a flight dynamics engineer at Astroscale UK.
During 2012, I started my research career as an engineering intern at the French National Space Agency (CNES), Toulouse, France where I developed the interplanetary trajectory analysis tools for Asteroid missions in the Space Mechanics department (currently DSO/DV/MS).
Between 2014 - 2017, I worked as a Junior & Senior Research Fellow in the department of Aerospace Engineering at Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences, Coimbatore, India where I commenced working on the research project on re-entry time prediction of space debris funded by Science and Engineering Research Board of Govt. of India. I graduated with a Ph.D in 2019 from the same university.
I was a visiting research student at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel during the summer of 2015 where I investigated analytical methods for satellite orbit modeling. Subsequently, as a visiting researcher at the University of Texas at Austin, I carried out research in solar radiation pressure modelling on resident space objects and orbit observability using regularized framework.
Between 2018 - 2021, I led the the mission design and software development team for space launch vehicles at AgniKul Cosmos, IIT Madras, Chennai, India.
For a brief period in 2021, I was a Postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Padova, Italy.
Reviewer: Acta Astronautica; Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics; Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets;
Education:
Graduated from high school in Erode India in 2004; Earned a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from PSGTech in India in 2008;
Before pursuing PhD in 2014 from Karunya University in India, I graduated with a Master's Degree in Aerospace Engineering in 2010 from University of Southern California and in Space Systems Engineering in 2012 from ISAE-SUPAERO.
I defended my Ph.D thesis titled: "Regularized Astrodynamics using Kustaanheimo-Stiefel space" in Aug 2019.