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Principal Investigator
Principal Investigator
Darshan Sarojini is an Assistant Professor at Virginia Tech, where he heads the Intelligent Design Optimization Lab (IDOpt Lab) in the Aerospace and Ocean Engineering department.
He serves on the AIAA Modeling and Simulation Technical Committee, Aircraft Design Technical Committee, Transformational Flight Intergration and Outreach Committee and Multimodal Transportation Working Group, and on a number of committees at the ACM/IEEE SuperComputing Conference.
He has a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, a master's degree in computational science and engineering, and a Ph.D. in aerospace engineering. His graduate school research was conducted in the Aerospace Systems Design Lab at Georgia Tech and postdoctoral research at the Large Scale Design Optimization lab at UC San Diego.
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Current Members
Current Members
Khoa D. Nguyen
Khoa D. Nguyen
Degree
Ph.D. AE
Research area
Autonomous Battery Units (ABUs) for Urban Air Mobility
LinkedIn, Google Scholar, ResearchGate, ORCID
Joseph Gould
Joseph Gould
Degree
BS/MS Accelerated Program AE
(Expected graduation: Dec 2026)
Research area
Certification-Driven Aircraft Design
Emma Paulter
Emma Paulter
Degree
MS AE
(Expected graduation: Dec 2026)
Research area
Optimization of hypersonic waveriders in a boost glide trajectory.
Joel George
Joel George
Degree
BS/MS Accelerated Program AE
(Expected graduation: May 2027)
Research area
Structural Optimization of Primary Aerospace Structures Subject to Manufacturability and Producibility Considerations
Krish D. Bhatt
Krish D. Bhatt
Degree
BS/MS Accelerated Program AE
(Expected graduation: Dec 2027)
Research area
Agent Based modeling for Simulating Multi-modal transportation and induction of eVTOLS.
Casey Chamberlain
Casey Chamberlain
Degree
MS AE
Graduated: Dec 2027
Research area
Tools for conceptual aircraft design in capstone design course
Jeremy John
Jeremy John
Degree
BS/MS Accelerated Program AE
(Expected graduation: May 2027)
Research area
Ship Design Optimization and Dynamics
Distinctions
DoW SMART Scholarship Recipient
2025 Fincantieri Scholar
Dylan Hogge
Dylan Hogge
Quinn McIver
Quinn McIver
Degree
BS/MS Accelerated Program AE
(Expected graduation: May 2027)
Research area
Off-Nominal Reliability Considerations for Conceptual Aircraft Design Optimization
Sanjana Anem
Sanjana Anem
Degree
Junior AE
(Expected graduation: May 2028)
Research area
Aircraft Design Visualization in VR
Alumni
Alumni
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