Specialisation:

Rockets and Missiles

Major Professional Contributions:

• Design, development and operationalization of Solid Rocket Motors of ISRO Launch Vehicles
• Design improvements aiding enhancement of PSLV payload capability
• Organisation of system reliability
• Initiation of hypersonic airbreathing study and flight testing of Air Augmented Rocket/Ramjet unit
• Development of small satellite Anusat-1 at Anna University. Proposal was presented to ISRO and funded by ISRO. 
• Establishment of High Temperature Material characterization laboratory at MIT, Anna University
• Development of laboratory for material durability studies at MIT, Anna University
• Detailed study of ballistic and cruise missile capabilities of countries in the region
• Space security, weaponization and related policy studies
• Detailed study on hypersonic missiles

Consultancy Areas:

High energy material, ballistic and cruise missiles, processes, performance, safety issues, space security.

Sector Associated With:

R&D

Sectors Interested to Offer Service:

Industry (Private), R&D Organizations, Government (including funding agencies)

Professional Experience

• Project Director, Solid Motors Project, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram
• Deputy Director, Solid Rockets and Composites, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram
• Associate Director,Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram. Concurrently, Dy Director, Systems Reliability
• Pandalai Memorial AR&DB Chair Professor, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Anna University, Chennai
• Lady Davis Visiting Professor, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa
• Visiting Professor and Head, International Strategic and Security Studies Programme, NIAS, Bengaluru
• Honorary Visiting Professor, International Strategic and Security Studies Programme, NIAS, Bengaluru

Keywords

• Rockets and missiles,
• Chaired reviews related to missile design, flight readiness
• Chaired failure analysis committees
• hypersonic weapons,
• space weapons
• space policy, policy and strategic issues
• Coordinated Track-II dialogue with US partners on Strategic Security Threats of the 21st Century topics