Shaurya is a third-year PhD student in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Purdue University. He got my bachelor’s and Master’s in Aerospace Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 2022. His master’s thesis focused on autonomous spacecraft navigation using x-ray pulsars. Before coming to Purdue, he interned at ISSL, University of Tokyo, where he worked on spacecraft rendezvous using model predictive control.

Research Interests:

• Real-time optimal control
• Safe spacecraft GNC

Awards:

• Ross Fellowship
• Purdue Engineering Excellence Scholarship
• Honda Y-E-S Award, 2020

Projects

• Markov-Jump-Based Control for Trajectory Design Robust to Missed Thrust Events