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Hamsa
Balakrishnan
T.
Wilson Career Development Assistant
Professor of Aeronautics
and Astronautics and Engineering
Systems
Dr.
Balakrishnan began her appointment
as an Assistant Professor of Aeronautics
and Astronautics and of Engineering
Systems at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology in January 2007. She
received her Ph.D. in Aeronautics
and Astronautics from Stanford University
in April 2006. Her Ph.D. dissertation
was on the design of algorithms for
tracking and managing identities of
objects in sensor networks, specifically
the air traffic surveillance system.
Her
research interests include algorithms
for the scheduling and routing of
air traffic, hybrid systems-based
techniques for the collection and
processing of data (surveillance),
and mechanisms for the allocation
of airport and airspace resources.
Dr.
Balakrishnan received her B.Tech in
Aerospace Engineering from the Indian
Institute of Technology (Madras) in
2000 and an M.S. in Aeronautics and
Astronautics from Stanford University
in 2002. Between May and December
2006, she was a Principal Development
Engineer at the University of California,
Santa Cruz and the NASA Ames Research
Center, where she developed algorithms
for the optimization of aircraft operations
at airports.
News
and announcements:
Balakrishnan
receives NSF CAREER award (January
29, 2008)
Prof.
Balakrishnan appointed T. Wilson Career
Development Professor (September
14, 2007)
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