Education

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, U.S.A.
Ph.D in Space Systems Engineering, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, June 2015
Thesis: Design and Evaluation of Distributed Spacecraft Missions for Multi-Angular Earth Observation
(PhD Thesis)

S.M. Aeronautics and Astronautics Engineering, June 2012
S.M. in the Technology and Policy Program, Engineering Systems Division, June 2012
Thesis: Collaborative Competition for Crowdsourcing Spaceflight Software and STEM Education using SPHERES Zero Robotics
(Dual SM Thesis)

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, KHARAGPUR, India
M.S. in Exploration Geophysics, August 2009
B.S. in Exploration Geophysics with an informal minor concentration in Electrical Engineering, August 2009
Thesis, in collaboration with University of California, Berkeley: Prediction and Modeling of the San Francisco Bay Area transients using Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar Time Series