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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.
sdarshan@vt.edu | Google Scholar | LinkedIn | ResearchGate | ORCID | GitHub
Current Members
Current Members
Khoa D. Nguyen
Khoa D. Nguyen
Degree
Ph.D. AE
Research area
Aircraft Design and Flight Operations, AI, UAM
LinkedIn, Google Scholar, ResearchGate, ORCID
Joseph Gould
Joseph Gould
Degree
BS/MS Accelerated Program AE
(Expected graduation: Dec 2026)
Research area
Powertrain Architecture Performance and Reliability Assessment for Conceptual Aircraft Design
Emma Paulter
Emma Paulter
Degree
MS AE
(Expected graduation: Dec 2026)
Research area
Optimization of hypersonic waveriders in a boost glide trajectory.
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.
Jeremy John
Jeremy John
Degree
Senior ME
(Expected graduation: May 2026)
Research area
Ship Design Optimization and Dynamics
Distinctions
2025 Fincantieri Scholar
Sanjana Anem
Sanjana Anem
Degree
Sophomore AE
(Expected graduation: May 2028)
Research area
Aircraft Design Visualization in VR
Alumni
Alumni
Ethan J. Phillips
Ethan J. Phillips
Degree
ME
(Expected graduation: May 2027)
Research area
Aircraft Flight Simulation and VR visualization
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