Curriculum Vitaé

.: personal details

Full name: Harshad Dilip Khadilkar
Year of Birth: 1987
Sex: Male
Citizenship: India

Current occupation:

PhD Candidate,
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge MA 02139, USA

Research Assistant,
(1) International Center for Air Transportation,
(2) Laboratory for Aviation and the Environment,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge MA 02139, USA
Research and Academic advisor: Prof Hamsa Balakrishnan

Current degrees held:

Bachelor of Technology (2009), Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay Powai, Mumbai - 400076, India

Master of Science (2011), Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

.:research

Research interests:

Air Traffic Management, Stochastic Control of Networks, Design of energy-efficient infrastructure systems

1. Modeling of the airport departure process as a stochastic network congestion control problem
2. Using the network formulation to to calculate optimal control policies for airport operations
3. Integrating the management of arrivals and departures into a unified framework
4. 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 summer of 2010

1. Development of combined control and communications algorithms for aircraft on approach to airports
2. Investigation of the gains in efficiency offered by the introduction of on-board GPS technology, as part of the FAA's NextGen plan

.: publications

.: education

Additional examinations:

GRE (2008): 1490/1600
TOEFL (2008): 117/120

Academic achievements:

1. Graduated with second rank across all engineering majors, in the batch of 2009 (IIT Bombay)
2. Graduated with first rank in the Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Bombay (2009)
3. Stood 13th in Mumbai Board in the Higher Secondary Certificate Examinations (2004)

Awards:

1. Second Place prize in the 7th annual Joseph A. Hartman Student Paper Competition (2011)
2. Best Paper Award in Air Traffic Management Research & Development Seminar 2011 (Berlin, Germany)
3. O.P. Jindal Engineering and Management Scholarship 2007 (OPJEMS)
4. Two 'Excellence in Academics' awards from Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Bombay (2008/2009)
5. Boeing Scholarship 2009 (IIT Bombay)
6. IITB Heritage Fund Scholarship from 2006 to 2009
7. National Talent Search Scholarship 2002 (NTSE)

.: relevant coursework

• Classical Control Techniques
• State Space Control of Flight Vehicles
• Optimal Control
• Flight Mechanics I, II
• Real Analysis and Introduction to Calculus
• Advanced Calculus
• Linear Algebra
• Differential Equations
• Complex Analysis and Partial Differential Equations
• Numerical Methods for Differential Equations
• Introduction to Optimization Methods
• Air Transportation

Graduate courses for credit (MIT)

• 16.31 Feedback Control Systems
• 16.322 Stochastic Estimation and Control
• 6.231 Dynamic Programming and Stochastic Control
• 6.431 Applied Probability
• 6.262 Discrete Stochastic Processes
• 2.160 Identification, Estimation and Learning
• 6.437 Inference and Information
• 16.72 Air Traffic Control
• 16.76J Logistical and Transportation Planning Methods

• 16.001/16.002 Unified Engineering Fall 2011
• 16.003/16.004 Unified Engineering Spring 2012

.: competencies

Previous projects completed:

1. Internship with Coral Digital technologies, Bangalore, India (2008). Focused on adaptive control of large parameter variations in a generic aircraft model called 'Admire'. This model is freely available online, courtesy of Forskninginstitut, the Swedish Defence Research Agency.
   
   
2. Undergraduate senior year thesis in the field of Multidisciplinary Design Optimization (2009). A commercial framework was used to set up a process for design optimization of flight vehicle components. The disciplines included were propulsion, aerodynamics and structures.
   
   
3. Literature survey on the stability and control of helicopters (2008).
   
   
4. Real-time simulation of the flight of an MAV, using GPS (2007). The code was written in Python.

Coding skills:

Familiar with Windows 98/XP/Vista/7, Debian/Ubuntu/RedHat versions of Linux, and Mac OSX.
Skilled with MATLAB, and familiar with Python, C, C++, Java.