Dr. Sikha Hota received her BE degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Engineering, Science and Technology and ME degree in Electrical Engineering from Jadavpur University. She did her PhD in Aerospace Engineering from Indian Institute of Science, in 2013. She worked in National CLAW team for LCA on behalf of CSIR, NAL.  Since 2015, she has been with Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and is currently an Associate Professor. Her primary research focus is on Guidance, Path Planning, Obstacle Avoidances, Collision Avoidances, Autonomous Control of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Multivehicle Coordination.