Department of Aerospace Engineering | वायुआकाश अभियांत्रिकी विभाग

Prof. Deepak Prakash Kumar

Building

Aerospace main building

Background

Education

Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering, 2025, Texas A&M University
Master of Technology in Automotive Engineering, 2020, Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Bachelor of Technology in Engineering Design, 2020, Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Appointments

Assistant Professor, June 2026 - Present, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Postdoctoral Scholar, August 2025 - June 2026, Center for Resilient Autonomous Systems, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UC Irvine.
Team Captain, August 2023 – August 2025, SAE AutoDrive Challenge, Texas A&M University.
Research Assistant, January 2022 – August 2025, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University
Teaching Assistant, August 2021 - December 2021, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University
Project Officer, August 2020 – June 2021, (Industrial Collaboration with Michelin Tyres) Department of Engineering Design, Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Student Researcher/Research Intern, November 2017 – May 2019, (Industrial Collaboration with BHEL, Trichy and BHEL, Chennai) Department of Engineering Design, Indian Institute of Technology Madras

R&D Areas/Projects

R&D Areas:

Multi-agent collaboration for search and rescue with reinforcement learning and/or large language models.
Human-robot teaming for ground, aerial, and space applications.
Planning for fixed-wing UAVs, quadcopters, and hypersonic vehicles moving in 2D, over the Earth, and 3D.
Decision making for a fleet of ground and aerial agents to accomplish the given mission optimally.

Across all areas, I am eager to develop algorithms and deploy them on hardware.

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