Jayati Athavale

Jayati Athavale

Jayati Athavale received her Masters from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 2013 where her thesis was on: ‘Evaluation of Internal Fin Geometry for Heat Transfer Enhancement in Automobile Exhaust Energy Harvesting Systems’. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the College of Engineering Pune, India with a gold medal in 2012. Currently, she is pursuing her PhD at Georgia Institute of Technology where her research broadly...
Shibani Bhatt

Shibani Bhatt

Shibani Bhatt is a young researcher in the field of Aerodynamics with a specialization in wall-bounded flows and active flow control. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Aerospace Engineering at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, FL. As her PhD project, she has designed and built a 12 ft. long wall-jet facility to provide a thick boundary layer with high frictional Reynolds number. During the course of her education,...
Mahdis Bisheban

Mahdis Bisheban

Mahdis Bisheban is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the George Washington University. She received her bachelor's and master's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Guilan in 2009 and 2011 respectively. Currently, she works in the Flight Dynamics and Control Laboratory under the supervision of Professor Taeyoung Lee. Her current research interests include the application of geometric mechanics and parameter identification on...
Mayara Murca

Mayara Conde Rocha Murca

Mayara Condé Rocha Murça received the B.S. degree in civil engineering and the M.S. degree in aeronautics infrastructure engineering from the Aeronautics Institute of Technology (ITA), São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil, in 2011 and 2013, respectively. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in aeronautics and astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA. She is an officer of the Brazilian Air Force and instructor at...
Ana Diaz

Ana Diaz Artiles

Dr. Ana Diaz Artiles is a lecturer and research associate at the Sibley School for Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University. Her interests focus on the biomedical and human factors aspects of space exploration, including artificial gravity, extravehicular activity, biomechanics, exercise physiology, cardiovascular modeling, sensorimotor adaptation, human health countermeasures, and space mission design. At Cornell, she has created and leads the senior/graduate course: “Bioastronautics and Human Performance”, and she...
Karen Dowling

Karen Dowling

Karen M. Dowling received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA, in 2013, and the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University, CA in 2015, where she is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering in the EXtreme Environments Microsystems Laboratory (XLab) under Prof. Senesky. Her research interests include the use of wideband gap materials for the development of sensors...
Nicoletta Fala

Nicoletta Fala

Nicoletta Fala is a PhD student in the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Purdue University, where she also received her undergraduate and master degrees, with Minors in Manufacturing Graphics and French. Her research is on General Aviation safety, where she tries to prevent accidents by analyzing and communicating pilot behaviors in flight data. Nicoletta is also a licensed private pilot with an instrument rating, the vice president of a...
Christine Fanchiang

Christine Fanchiang

As a recent PhD graduate from the University of Colorado, Christine currently works full time for The Space Research Company (TSRCo), an aerospace firm primarily focused on developing technologies for advancing human spaceflight. She works on developing small satellites for biology research as well as conducting basic human performance modeling research for spaceflight systems. She has worked on several space projects starting as an undergrad at MIT, where she helped...
Sherrie Hall

Sherrie Hall

Sherrie Hall a PhD student in Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has been interested in human space flight most of her life. She graduated with a BS and MS in Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Tech prior to starting her doctoral work. Her current research explores implementations for gesture control interfaces for human-robot interaction. She is particularly interested in space exploration applications for gesture control. Her...
Sara Hrbek

Sara Hrbek

Sara Hrbek is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in Aerospace Engineering with a focus area in Astrodynamics and Satellite Navigation at University of Colorado at Boulder. She received the M.S. degree in Engineering, Spacecraft and Instrumentation from Luleå University of Technology in Sweden 2012, and the M.S. degree in Aerospace Engineering from University of Colorado at Boulder, 2016. Her research interests are GNSS receiver architecture for remote sensing applications focusing...
Jing Li

Jing Li

Jing Li graduated from Duke University with a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in November 2016. She was trained in the field of Turbomachinery Aeromechanics and conducted research to understand and predict the mistuned compressor forced response under the supervision of her advisor, Dr. Robert Kielb. In January 2017, she joined GE Global Research Center in Niskayuna, New York and is currently a mechanical engineer specialized in aerodynamics and aeroacoustics. This...
Jessica Morgan

Jessica Morgan

Jessica Morgan is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University. She holds a BS degree in Physics and an MS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Brigham Young University (’11, ’15). Her research endeavors range from origami-inspired space mechanisms to investigating jet noise. During an internship at NASA Marshall, she developed a passion for Aerospace Engineering and propulsion systems. Currently, her dissertation research is...
Elaine Petro

Elaine Petro

Elaine Petro is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Maryland (UMD), College Park. She is pursuing research on a water-propelled plasma thruster in the Space Power and Propulsion Laboratory under Dr. Ray Sedwick. Elaine has been named an ARCS Scholar, National Science Foundation and Amelia Earhart fellow, and was recognized as one of Aviation Week & Space Technology’s Twenty20s emerging leaders in aerospace...
Jhanani Selvakumar

Jhanani Selvakumar

Jhanani Selvakumar is a doctoral student in the department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at the University of Texas at Austin. She obtained her M.S.E in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and B.E in Aerospace Engineering at Anna University, Chennai, India. Her past research focused on applying a game-theoretic framework to vehicle control problems in uncertain environments. Currently, she works on non-cooperative multi-agent games for...
Gayathri Shivkumar

Gayathri Shivkumar

Gayathri Shivkumar is a 2nd year PhD student in the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Purdue University. She received her B.E. degree in Mechanical Engineering from PES Institute of Technology in Bangalore, India in 2013. She received her M.S.A.A. from Purdue University in 2015. For her Master’s thesis, Gayathri modeled hydrogen plasmas to optimize microwave plasma systems for the Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) of carbon nanotubes, graphitic nanopetals and...
Yibin Zhang

Yibin Zhang

Yibin Zhang is currently a PhD candidate at Princeton University and she earned her Bachelor of Science in Engineering degree from the University of Pennsylvania. Her research applies a femtosecond laser diagnostic to supersonic flows that simulate conditions experienced by high-speed aircrafts. Her goal is a successful experimental demonstration and theoretical study of this molecular tagging velocimetry method in air flows. This method, if successfully adopted by the aerospace industry,...