Education

• Ph.D. Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Professional Experience

• @IIT Madras (July 2006 - Till date)

  AS3050 (Flight Dynamics II) video at http://nptel.iitm.ac.in

  AS2040 (Flight Dynamics I)

  AS5340 (Advanced Flight Mechanics)

  AS5030 (Introduction to Space Technology)

  AS5550 (Aerospace System Estimation and Control

  AS5560 (Dynamical Systems Stability and Bifurcations)

  Basic Propulsion and Aerodynamics courses (HAL trainees)

• @TU-Darmstadt (April 2003 - January 2006)

  Mechanical Vibrations - I (Vibrations of Discrete Systems)

  Mechanical Vibrations - II (Vibrations of Continuous Systems)

Expertise

• High-Angle-of-Attack Aircraft Flight Dynamics
• Advanced Six DOF Simulation, Modeling
• Simulation and Control of Nonlinear Flight Phenomena
• Aircraft Design
• Flapping Wing MAV, Nonlinear Dynamics and Control
• Bifurcation Theory and Continuation Methods
• Tethered Satellite Systems Dynamics
• Bifurcations in periodically forced systems.

Research Interests

• Aircraft Flight Dynamics Control and Guidance
• Flight Simulation Techniques
• Aerial Vehicle Autonomy
• Bifurcations and Numerical Continuation Methods