Sandeep Badrinath

Select Awards

• Honorable mention for the INFORMS Transportation Science & Logistics Society Dissertation Prize (2021).

• Honorable mention for the INFORMS Aviation Applications Section Dissertation Prize (2021).

• Best Paper Award (Environment & Energy Efficiency Track), USA/Europe Air Traffic Management R&D Seminar (2021).

• Best Paper Award (Trajectory Management & Optimization Track), International Conference on Research in Air Transportation (2020).

• Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Graduate Research Award by Transportation Research Board, USA (2019).

• Best Paper Award (Integrated Airport/Airside Operations Track), USA/Europe Air Traffic Management R&D Seminar (2019).

• Institute Merit Prize from IIT Madras for the highest GPA in Aerospace Engineering during the pre-final year (2015).

Brief Bio

Sandeep Badrinath received his PhD from MIT and a dual degree (B.Tech. + M.Tech.) from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. His research broadly focuses on system modeling, design of control and optimization algorithms, with applications to air traffic management. In particular, his PhD dissertation focused on developing models and control algorithms for queuing networks, and these techniques were applied to reduce traffic congestion at airports. Additionally, he has worked on several other research problems in aviation such as estimating the environmental impacts of airport surface operations, design of trajectory-based operations for air traffic management and automatic speech recognition for air traffic control communications.