Experience

Education

  • Ph.D, Urban Computing. University of California, Berkeley. 2017-2021.
  • M.S., Electrical Engineering. Columbia University. 2010-2011.
  • B.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. University of California, Berkeley (minors: Economics, South Asian Studies). 2006-2009.

Work

  • Head of Product Intelligence / Systems Simulation, Wisk Aero, 2021-Present.
  • Aeronautics Researcher, USRA NASA Academic Mission Services. 2020-2021.
  • Project Consultant/Lead Researcher, Altiscope at A^3 by Airbus. 2018-2019.
  • Co-Founder/CEO, Perpetual Systems Inc. 2017-2018.
  • Senior Digital Signal Processing (DSP) Software Engineer, Tarana Wireless, Inc. 2011-2017.

Awards & Honors

  • U.S. Department of Transportation Dwight D. Eisenhower Graduate Fellowship Recipient. 2020.
  • Selected as recipient of NASA/USRA Internal Research and Development (IRAD) award (chosen as one of five across all of USRA in the nation). 2020.
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower Graduate Transportation Fellowship (DDETFP) Best Poster Presentation Winner, Transportation Research Board Conference. 2020.
  • U.S. Department of Transportation Dwight D. Eisenhower Graduate Fellowship Recipient. 2019.
  • Summer Department Fellowship, Berkeley DCRP. 2018.
  • National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (I-Corps) National Grant ($50K). 2017.
  • National Science Foundation National I-Corps Winner. 2017.
  • Verizon Wireless and New York City Economic Development Corporation Open Innovation Prototyping Award ($25K). 2016.

Teaching

  • Guest Lecturer – Introduction to Urban Data Analytics. University of California, Berkeley. 2019-2020.
  • Guest Lecturer – Graduate Scalable Spatial Analytics. University of California, Berkeley. 2019.
  • Graduate Teaching Assistant – Graduate Transportation Policy and Planning. University of California, Berkeley. 2018.
  • Guest Lecturer – Introduction to Transportation Engineering. University of California, Berkeley. 2018.
  • Graduate Teaching Assistant – Introduction to Urban Economics. University of California, Berkeley. 2017
  • Graduate Teaching Assistant – Graduate Wireless Systems and Internet-of-Things. Columbia University. 2016.
  • Graduate Teaching Assistant – Graduate Computer Networks. Columbia University. 2015.
  • Graduate Teaching Assistant – Introduction to Wireless Communications. Columbia University. 2011.

Invited Talks

  • The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), The Young Entrepreneurs. “Safe and Sustainable Transportation.” June 2024.
  • University of California, Berkeley, AIR Lab. “Challenges and Considerations for Autonomous UAM Operations.” March 2024.
  • University of California, Berkeley, Haas Mobility Club. Panel on Advanced Air Mobility and Decarbonizing Aviation. May 2022.
  • INFORMS 2022 Annual Meeting. “UAM Vertiport Infrastructure Considerations.” October 2022.
  • Association of Metropolitan Planning Organizations. “Evaluating the Risks and Readiness of U.S. Cities for Urban Air Mobility.” October 2021.
  • Applied Urban Modeling 2021. “Microsimulation Analysis for Networked Traffic Assignment (MANTA) and Traffic Control Inference using Deep Learning.” January 2021.
  • NASA Symposium 2020. “Assessing the Value of Urban Air Mobility through Metropolitan-Scale Microsimulation: A Case Study of the San Francisco Bay Area.” December 2020.
  • INFORMS 2020 Annual Meeting. “UAM Vertiport Location Choice And Network Design Under Land Use Constraints.” November 2020.

Academic Service

  • Referee, Transportation Research Record. 2023-Present.
  • Referee, Electronics. 2022-Present.
  • Referee, Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 2021-Present.
  • Referee, Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications. 2020-Present.
  • Referee, PeerJ. 2020-Present.
  • Referee, Berkeley Planning Journal. 2018-Present.