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Tyler Adams
Graduate Research Assistant
Tyler is from Phoenix, AZ, and received his Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering from BYU and is looking forward to specializing in Aerospace at Purdue. He's always had a love for fighter jets (pretty much any military aircraft) and his dream is to work on top secret projects in that area. He enjoys playing pretty much all sports; especially soccer, volleyball, tennis, and pickleball. He also loves to play the piano.
Research Interests: High Performance Aircraft, Design, and Simulation
Research Interests: High Performance Aircraft, Design, and Simulation
Prajwal Balasubramani
Graduate Research Assistant
Prajwal holds a Masters in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Purdue. He has previous experience in projects ranging from electric vehicle DBT, operations research methods, multi-agent system architecture, mechanism design for game balance, system-of-system acquisition and portfolio optimization, to leading conceptual design for amphibious aircraft, using machine learning to quantify game balance. His PhD dissertation focuses on modeling and measuring fidelity of models for SoS and Digital Twins. He used to play the violin and is currently learning the guitar. He starts his day with a big cup of coffee and a few chess rapid games. Always interested in games - on a board or a console.
Research Interests: Modeling & Simulation, Machine/Deep Learning, Explainable AI, System Design, Multi-agent Systems, Operations Research and Gamification
Research Interests: Modeling & Simulation, Machine/Deep Learning, Explainable AI, System Design, Multi-agent Systems, Operations Research and Gamification
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Christopher Brand
Graduate Research Assistant
Katharine Burn
Graduate Research Assistant
Hsun Chao
Post Doctoral Research Assistant
ARMS3175
Charles D'Onofrio
Charles graduated from the University of Maryland in 2016 with his Bachelors in aerospace engineering. He began his career with NAVAIR’s Propulsion and Power division as a turbofan/turbojet basic design engineer where he supported the AV-8B Harrier’s mighty F402 engine and managed a portfolio of Science and Technology (S&T) projects. In 2021, Charles left NAVAIR to study for his Master’s fulltime at Purdue University. In December 2023, Charles earned his Masters of Business Administration, and in July 2024, he earned his Masters of Science in Aeronautics and Astronautics. His thesis focused on optimizing the topology of an emergency response drone network. Charles is now a Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA) contractor at the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Code 35 where he works on enhancing continuous wave high energy laser weapon effectiveness and counter measures.
Michael Dai
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Christopher Debenham
Graduate Research Assistant
Liam Durbin
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Kristopher Ezra
Research Scientist
Purdue Technology Center, D2-305
Tien-Yueh Fung
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Edward is a Ph.D. student at Purdue School of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Edward holds a bachelor's and master's degree at National Cheng Kung University Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics with experience in the design of Stirling engine and aerospace heat exchangers.
Research Interests: System architectures of advanced aerial mobility and space structures.
Research Interests: System architectures of advanced aerial mobility and space structures.
ARMS 3154
Melanie Grande
Graduate Research Assistant
Nicholas Gunady
Graduate Research Assistant
Nick is currently a graduate research assistant in the Advanced Air Mobility cluster, particularly on the Operational Limits Analysis Project sponsored by NASA Langley and the National Institute of Aerospace. His personal work aims to develop methods to and study powering future electric aircraft for minimizing operational costs and identify opportunities for urban planners. He has previous internship experience at American Airlines and GE Aviation, working on civil and military aircraft such as the 787, 777, P8 Poseidon, KC-46 Tanker, F/A-18 etc.
Research interests: Advanced Air Mobility, Aircraft Operations and Design, Optimization, Renewable Energy.
Research interests: Advanced Air Mobility, Aircraft Operations and Design, Optimization, Renewable Energy.
ARMS 3175
Andrew Haines
Fredrick N. Andrews Assistantship
Clint Hanthorn
Software Engineer
Stephanie Harrington
Graduate Research Assistant
Andrew Lang
Graduate Research Assistant
Matthew Lanier
Graduate Research Assistant
Ha Phuong Le
Graduate Research Assistant
ARMS 3154
Kshitij Mall
Post Doc Research Associate
Kshitij Mall is a Post-doctoral Research Associate at the Center for Integrated Systems in Aerospace, Purdue University. He obtained his Ph.D. and Masters degrees from the School of Aeronautics & Astronautics, Purdue University in 2018 and 2013 respectively. He was a Post-doctoral Research Fellow in the department of Aerospace Engineering at Auburn University in 2019. Previously, he completed B. Tech. in Mechanical Engineering at JSSATE Noida and then worked for a year at Infosys Technologies Ltd. as a Computer Systems Engineer Trainee. He has worked on projects with NASA, DARPA, SERC, Sandia National Labs and the Mars Society. He has volunteered on educational outreach projects for the Orissa Government and Tata Steels in India. He is a young professional member of AIAA.
Research Interests: Human-Class Mars Missions, Trajectory Optimization, Atmospheric Flight Mechanics, Explainable Artificial Intelligence, Advanced Air Mobility, and Systems Engineering.
Research Interests: Human-Class Mars Missions, Trajectory Optimization, Atmospheric Flight Mechanics, Explainable Artificial Intelligence, Advanced Air Mobility, and Systems Engineering.
Linas Mockus
Research Associate Professor
Sai Mudumba
Graduate Research Assistant
Ashish Patel
Graduate Research Assistant
Seejay Patel
Knox Fellow
Seejay graduated with an undergraduate degree in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at Purdue in May of 2022. During his undergrad he was lucky enough to get introduced to research and Dr. D's lab through Nick Gunady. His research interests lie in Urban Air Mobility, specifically in operations and energy infrastructure. In June, he was apart of the team that won the FAA Smart Connected Aviation Student Competition with their Demand Response UAM infrastructure project. He is super excited to continue this work and do more research with the lab!
Research Interests: Urban Air Mobility, Advanced Air Mobility, Energy Infrastructure, MBSE, Reinforcement Learning
Research Interests: Urban Air Mobility, Advanced Air Mobility, Energy Infrastructure, MBSE, Reinforcement Learning
ARMS 3175
Ali Raz
Assist. Professor
Lauren Risany
Graduate Research Assistant
Lauren was a Master's student as part of Purdue's 4+1 program. She received her Bachelor’s in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering in the spring of 2022 and is interested in autonomous, high-speed flight systems as well as machine learning-based fault-tolerant control methods. In addition to her work at Purdue, Lauren interns at Sandia National Laboratories where she works on real-time trajectory generation strategies for hypersonic boost-glide applications.
Research Interests: Autonomous Systems, Fault-Tolerant Control, Reinforcement Learning
Research Interests: Autonomous Systems, Fault-Tolerant Control, Reinforcement Learning
Rodrigo Schmitt
Bilsland Fellow, Graduate Research Assistant
Rod is an astrophysicist from Brazil with a M.Sc. in Space Engineering focused in Space Mechanics & Controls. Rod also specialized in AI by working as a programming teacher and data scientist, and co-founded SEARCH, the first organization at Purdue dedicated to astronaut-related initiatives. Currently, Rod is working on the development of space missions from a multi-level perspective. In the systems level, his research concentrates on exploring the design space of innovative space systems via graph representation and generative design. In the System-of-Systems level, multiple systems are simulated in different mission architecture configurations towards optimizing mission metrics. In his free time, he enjoys outdoors activities like hiking, as well as instrumental music and philosophical books.
Research interests: Space Mission Architectures; Generative Design; Deep Learning; Explainable AI; Space System Design; Optimization.
Research interests: Space Mission Architectures; Generative Design; Deep Learning; Explainable AI; Space System Design; Optimization.
ARMS 3175
William Shackelford
Purdue Military Research Initiative
Sonali Sinha Roy
Graduate Research Assistant
Sonali is a Ph.D. student at Purdue's School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and a Graduate researcher at CISA (SoS Lab). She has a keen interest in interdisciplinary research for space applications, with a focus on Systems Engineering. She has an affinity for large-scale space missions involving multiple systems and stakeholders.
Research interests: Space Mission Engineering, Systems Architecture, System Safety and Risk Assessment, Model-based Systems Engineering, Space Exploration Systems.
Research interests: Space Mission Engineering, Systems Architecture, System Safety and Risk Assessment, Model-based Systems Engineering, Space Exploration Systems.
ARMS 3175
Eli Sitchin
Graduate Research Assistant
Brandon Smith
Graduate Research Assistant
Varun Sudarsanan
Graduate Research Assistant
ARMS 3154
Zhong Thai
Graduate Research Assistant
Ethan Wright
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Ethan Wright was a graduate researcher in the Advanced Air Mobility cluster.
Research interests: Network Design and Optimization, Aircraft Electrification, Wireless Power Transmission
Research interests: Network Design and Optimization, Aircraft Electrification, Wireless Power Transmission
Vladimir Zeltsman
Graduate Research Assistant
Originally from Ft. Lauderdale Florida, he completed his undergraduate studies here at Purdue. He currently specializes in Aerospace Systems.
Research Interests: Systems, Spacecraft, Aircraft
Research Interests: Systems, Spacecraft, Aircraft