Howdy! I'm Naveed, a Ph.D. candidate in aerospace engineering at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas.
I work on optimal control of nonlinear dynamical systems for my dissertation. I have previously worked on developing reconstruction algorithms for synthetic aperture radars, filtering for distributed state estimation, and was also involved in building the navigation stack for an autonomous warehouse vehicle.
Simply put, I like to develop solutions to make smarter and more efficient systems. My younger self used to call it 'inducing life into machines' :)
News and Updates
[June 2023] Admitted to candidacy - passed Ph.D. preliminary exam and submitted research proposal.
[May 2023] Presented the work on 'The Information-State Based Approach to Linear System Identification' at the American Control Conference in San Diego, California.
[January 2023] Received the Aero Graduate Excellence Fellowship Award for Spring 2023.
[June 2022] Presented the work 'On the feedback law in stochastic optimal nonlinear control' at the American Control Conference in Atlanta, Georgia.
[September 2021] Completed my internship at X and returned to EDPLab as Research Assistant.
[June 2021] Joined as an intern with X, the moonshot factory to work on Taara - moonshot aiming to expand global access to fast, affordable internet with beams of light.
[August 2020] Teaching Assistant for the graduate-level course: 'Modern Control of Aerospace Systems'.
[June 2020] Passed Aerospace Fundamentals Qualifying Examination - Ph.D. qualifying exam.
[May 2020] Received the Aero Graduate Excellence Fellowship Award for Summer 2020.
[September 2018] Joined as a Graduate Research Assistant in Estimation, Decision, and Planning Laboratory (EDPLab).
[August 2018] Joined graduate school in the Department of Aerospace Engineering, Texas A&M University.
[May 2018] Graduated with a Bachelor of Technology degree in Instrumentation and Control Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, India.