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I am a graduate student pursuing a PhD degree in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT. I completed my Masters degree from the same department, in May 2011. I also work as a research assistant in the International Center for Air Transportation. Before coming to MIT, I completed a Bachelors degree in Aerospace Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.

Last update: May 09, 2012

Research interests:

Air Traffic Management, Stochastic Estimation and Control

1. Modeling of the airport departure process as a stochastic network congestion control problem
2. Using the network formulation to provide decision support for pushback times and taxi routes at airports
3. Developing a simulator for the taxi-out process at airports

1. Analysis of surface operations at airports using surface surveillance data
2. Estimation of aircraft fuel consumption during taxi-out, using Cockpit Flight Data Recorder data
3. Participation in the N-Control demo at Boston Logan Airport in the summers of 2010 and 2011