NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER, USA
Position Title: Senior Research Scientist at BAER Institute and NASA ARC (June 2014-present)
NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER, USA
Position Title: Senior Research Scientist at BAER Institute and NASA GSFC Software Engineering Division (August 2015-present);
Research Associate at USRA and NASA GSFC Software Engineering Division (June 2013-February 2014);
Research Associate at USRA and NASA GSFC Climate Science and Radiation Division (June-August 2012)
SPACE SYSTEMS LABORATORY, MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, USA
MIT Graduate Research Assistant (September 2010 - May 2012), Program Lead (January 2011 - February 2012)
Project Collaborators: NASA Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, DARPA, Aurora Flight Sciences, TopCoder
Research: Designing, programming and managing the SPHERES Zero Robotics Program, a series of robotics programming tournaments for students aboard the International Space Station. The MIT SSL developed the SPHERES laboratory environment aboard the ISS to provide researchers with an experimental testbed for the validation of high risk control for use in formation flight, autonomous docking, rendezvous and reconfiguration algorithms. Zero Robotics (ZR) enables students - high school, middle school and college level - to participate directly in the science conducted aboard the ISS. The software framework for this program is built in collaboration with TopCoder by crowdsourcing the development to their 300,000 strong community of members via a series of contests. The program itself incentivises thousands of students to play challenging games relevant to current space systems research i.e. they provide insightful solutions to topics on formation flight, strategic mission planning, fuel optimization, etc. Crowdsourcing not only develops the program but is also demonstrate it within the program itself. (NASA Report) (Crowdsourcing Impact Report) (Educational Impact Report) (S/W Development Report)
EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY (ESTEC), NOORDWIJK, THE NETHERLANDS
Position Title: International Research Fellow at ACT in Artificial Intelligence (June-August 2010)
Research: Demonstrated the scatter maneuver technique using swarm intelligence and equilibrium shaping applied to a fractionated spacecraft, treated as a multi-agent system, with a limited (but scalable to large) number of heterogeneous satellites with limited communication, collective reconfiguration and distributed computing abilities. Feedback controls were added, technology enablers benchmarked and benefits of autonomous collision avoidance in an uncertain environment with many agents clearly demonstrated. The modular, miniaturized subsystem of CubeSATs was used for the demonstration purposes. (Published Report)
NASA JET PROPULSION LABORATORY, USA
Position Title: Summer Intern in Radar Science and Engineering (May to July 2008)
Research: Modeled Boundary Element Method and crustal kinematic modeling was used to solve fracture development in far fields on Mars constrained by MOLA-DEMs, MOC and THEMIS imagery data as a prime focus in the 'Fundamental Mars Research Project' at NASA. This included developing geometrical models for graben formation in Alba Patera, Mars and non-linear inversion for determining physical and mechanical parameters using gridded satellite data. (Space Grant Abstract) (Space Grant Report)
WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION, USA
Position Title: Summer Student Fellow in Ocean Bottom Seismology (April to July 2007)
Research: Proposed the idea and applied Full-waveform inversion (FWI) (via using Finite Difference Scheme, Filtered Gradient inversion, stochastic fractals) to the very complicated region known to have created the Earth's crust, the mid-Atlantic Ridge. Usually, FWI due to its complexity and unparalleled accuracy is used primarily in Computerized Brain Scanning. Implemented a processing sequence for vertical seismic profiles from the International Ocean Drilling Program Hole 1256D to check the presence of sub-basement reflections in the Multi-channel seismic profiles. (AGU Paper)(AGU Poster)
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, U.S.A. and IIT KHARAGPUR, INDIA
Position Title: Under graduate Thesis research in Exploration Geophysics (November 2008 to April 2009)
Research: Analyzed European Space Agency acquired Satellite Interferometric synthetic aperture radar time series of San Francisco Bay Area by functional, principal component analysis, Empirical Model Decomposition. The slip histories on tectonic faults of the Bay were calculated via the Network Inversion Filter, Kalman Filtering and Green's Functions. (Thesis Summary)
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE Bangalore, INDIA
Position Title: Summer Intern in Instrumentation Engineering (April to July 2006)
Research: Cancerous tissue shows 10 times more elastic than optical change, at a much earlier stage. I computationally solved for elastic parameters directly by using the novel synthesis of photo-elasto-acoustic or a simultaneous 3 wave propagation (via Eikonal, Naviers', Diffusion and Coupled PT Equation), rather than use dependency on a sequential secondary source. This proposes to detect cancer (Lame's Parameters via Finite Element Method) much earlier, more accurately.
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