Scholar
Hamsa Balakrishnan
Google Scholar ID: LIXocDwAAAAJ
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Citations & Impact
Citations
3,024
H-index
29
i10-index
82
Publications
20
Co-authors
0
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Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Recipient of the American Automatic Control Council's Donald P. Eckman Award in 2014, the AIAA Lawrence Sperry Award in 2012, the inaugural CNA Award for Operational Analysis in 2012, Kevin Corker Award for Best Paper at the Air Traffic Management R&D Seminar (in 2011, 2021, and 2023), MIT AIAA Undergraduate Teaching Award in 2019, MIT AIAA Undergraduate Advising Award in 2014, and NSF CAREER Award in 2008. Fellow of the AIAA (Class of 2025).
Research Experience
- Before joining MIT, worked as a Principal Development Engineer at the University Affiliated Research Center (UC Santa Cruz) and the NASA Ames Research Center's Terminal Air Traffic Management Concepts Branch.
Education
- Ph.D. from Stanford University; B.Tech. from Indian Institute of Technology Madras.
Background
- Associate Dean of Engineering and William E. Leonhard (1940) Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Leads the Dynamics, Infrastructure Networks, and Mobility (DINaMo) Research Group. Current research interests lie in the design, analysis, and implementation of control and optimization algorithms for large-scale cyber-physical infrastructures, with a focus on air transportation systems.
Miscellany
- At MIT, affiliated with the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS), the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), and the Operations Research Center (ORC). Involved in teaching courses such as 16.763: Air Transportation Operations Research, 16.781: Airport Systems Planning, Design, and Management, and 16.995: Doctoral Research & Communication Seminar.
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