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Darshan Sarojini

Assistant Professor
  • Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • M.S., Computational Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • M.S., Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • B.E., Mechanical Engineering, B.M.S. College of Engineering, Bangalore, India
Darshan Sarojini
Aerospace & Ocean Engineering (MC0203)
Virginia Tech Swing Space, Room 224C
1600 Innovation Drive
Blacksburg, VA 24061
sdarshan@vt.edu
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  • AOE-4065: Air Vehicle Design I
  • Multidisciplinary Design, Analysis, and Optimization (MDAO)
  • Certification-Driven Aircraft Design
  • Systems Engineering

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

  • Modelling and Simulation Technologies (MST) Technical Committee, 2022 – present
  • Technical Discipline Chair for MST, Aviation 2025

The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis: Super Computing (SC)

  • Vice-chair (Student Cluster Competition committee), SC24
  • Member (Early career committee), Member (Reproducibility challenge committee) SC23
  • Vice-chair (IndySCC), Member (Early career committee), Member (Student programming committee) SC22
  • Co-chair (IndySCC) SC21

Journal Reviewer

  • Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization
  • AIAA Journal of Aerospace Information Systems
  • AIAA Journal of Aircraft
  • Advances in Materials and Processing Technologies
  • Engineering Computations
  • Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering
  • Best application paper award, 14th International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanism and Machine Science (IFToMM) World Congress, Taiwan, 2015
  • Best paper award in the general category, 2nd International and 17th National Conference on Machines and Mechanisms, Kanpur, 2015
  • Virginia Tech, Assistant Professor, Aerospace and Ocean Engineering Department, 2024- present
  • Archer Aviation, Aerodynamic Performance Engineer, Office of Chief Engineer, 2024 –2024
  • University of California San Diego, Postdoctoral Scholar, Large Scale Design Optimization Lab, 2022 – 2024
  • Georgia Institute of Technology, Postdoctoral Fellow, Aerospace Systems Design Lab, 2021 – 2022
  •  Indian Institute of Science, Project Assistant, Multidisciplinary and Multiscale Device and Design Lab, 2014 – 2015