Recent Advances in Aerospace Engineering Select Proceedings of MRAE 2025

Dr. Sanjay Singh completed his Ph.D. in aerospace engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 2008. He is currently a professor and director of Amity Institute of Aerospace Engineering, Amity University, Uttar Pradesh, India. His research area includes flight vehicle system identification and parameter estimation, neural networks, UAV/MAV, flight and wind tunnel testing, flight dynamics and materials. He has authored 50 articles published in reputed journals and conferences. He is a member of review committees of many national and international journals of aerospace field. Dr. Singh is currently involved in the design and development of autonomous high endurance fixed wing UAV.

Dr. Sachin Singh Gautam is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. His research interest is in computational mechanics specifically isogeometric analysis, contact problems, GPU computing. Recently, he has started to explore machine learning applications in finite elements especially contact problems. He has published 1 book, 35 journal papers and 20 book chapters. Currently, he is co-authoring a textbook on finite elements with Prof P. M. Dixit (IIT Kanpur). Dr. Gautam is currently involved in development of contact and isogeometric modules for FEAST® software being developed by VSSC, ISRO.

Prof. Rajkumar S. Pant has bachelors, masters, and Ph.D. degrees in aerospace engineering. His areas of specialization include aircraft conceptual design, air transportation, and optimization. He has been a faculty member in the Aerospace Engineering Department at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay since December 1989. He is currently a Professor in higher academic grade. Prof. Pant is an alumnus of College of Aeronautics, Cranfield University, UK, where he earned his Ph.D. under Commonwealth Scholarship Scheme, and IIT Madras, where he did his masters in aeronautical engineering. He has also worked for five years in Hindustan Aeronautics Limited in the Design & Engineering Department at Kanpur (3.5 years) and Nasik (1.5 years) Divisions.