Rajkumar Pant

Rajkumar Pant has all his three degrees (B.S., M.S., and Ph.D.) in aerospace engineering. He has been a member of faculty of Aerospace Engineering Department at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, since December 1989, and carries out teaching and research in the area of aircraft conceptual design, optimization, and air transportation. Currently, he is spearheading a national initiative to develop indigenous capability in design and development of Lighter Than Air (LTA) vehicles. As part of his doctoral research at College of Aeronautics Cranfield University, UK, he carried out case studies on short-haul business travel in India. His current areas of research in air transportation include airline network optimization, modeling and simulation of ATM Systems to determine capacity bottlenecks at airport and airspace, and methodologies for assessment and mitigation of ATC workload. He was a visiting academic at Imperial College, London, during the summer of 2006, to propose some joint studies related to mathematical modeling and simulation of airspace, leading to the development of a generic framework for the estimation of Air Traffic Capacity and Delay in Indian and UK Airspace. He has conducted many courses on air transportation under the continuing education program of IIT Bombay. He has presented around 40 scientific papers in international and national conferences, and published six papers in refereed journals. He is a member of The Aeronautical Society of India, Indian Society of Technical Education, The Royal Aeronautical Society, and The Airship Association. He has recently been elected as an international member of the Lighter-Than-Air Technical Committee of American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics.

Biography Updated on 19 December 2007