Experience
Instructor
Summer 2023
Taught Engineering Dynamics to undergraduate students from Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Cincinnati
in Summer 2023.
Research Assistant
(2021-2024)
Researched nonlinear control techniques and their applications in multi-vehicle systems, bio-inspired systems, and wind turbines
on Modeling, Dynamics and Control Lab, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Cincinnati under the supervision of
Dr. Sameh A. Eisa.
Teaching Assistant
(2019-2020)
Responsible for grading homework and providing the lecture in the absence of the instructor for courses:
Thermodynamics and Energy Systems, Probabilistic and Economic Engineering, and Solid Mechanics in
Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Cincinnati.
Design Engineer, National Innovation Center
(2018-2019)
Responsible for research, design, and fabrication of prototypes of fixed-wing UAVs for medicine delivery in rural areas of Nepal.
Education
University of Cincinnati
2019-2024
Successfully defended PhD in Aerospace Engineering (Dynamics and Control) GPA: 4.
Tribhuvan University, Pulchowk Campus
(2013-2017)
Completed Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering.
Honors and Awards
- Selected as graduate student Engineer of the Month for April 2024.
- Awarded by SIAM Student Travel Award for SIAM Conference on Control and its Applications 2023.
- Selected to participate in the highly competitive Graduate Student Mathematical Modeling Camp (GSMMC) and the Mathematical Problems in Industry Workshop for 2023.
- Awarded by SIAM Student Travel Award for SIAM Conference on the Life Sciences (LS22) and 2022 SIAM Annual Meeting (AM22).
- Invited to write a news article on the SIAM News blogs titled “Albatross Optimized Flight Physics: A Natural Extremum Seeking System?”
Skills
- Matlab
- Simulink
- Python
- MS Office
- CATIA
Research Interests
- Nonlinear dynamics and control
- Extremum seeking control
- Estimation
- Optimization
- Bio-inspired systems
- UAVs
- Wind turbines
- Robotics
- Machine Learning