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Dr. Sirohi’s CV

THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN

College of Engineering

FULL NAME: Jayant Sirohi

TITLE: Professor

DEPARTMENT: Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics

EDUCATION:

University/Institution

Discipline

Degree

Y ear

Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India

Aerospace Engineering

Bachelor of Technology

1996

University of Maryland

Aerospace Engineering

MS

1998

University of Maryland

Aerospace Engineering

PhD

2002

CURRENT AND PREVIOUS ACADEMIC POSITIONS:

  • Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics, The University of Texas at Austin, 2019 – to date.
  • Associate Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics, The University of Texas at Austin, Sep. 2014 – 2019.
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics, The University of Texas at Austin, Aug. 2008 – Aug. 2014.
  • Assistant Research Scientist, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park. Jun. 2003 – Feb. 2007.
  • Research Associate, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park. Jun. 2002 – May 2003.
  • Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park. Aug 1996 – May 2002.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

  • Staff Engineer, Advanced Concepts, Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, Mar. 2008 – Aug. 2008. Technical Lead of analytical tool development.
  • Senior Engineer, Advanced Concepts, Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation. Feb. 2007 – Mar. 2008. Responsibilities included conceptual design and analysis of advanced VTOL configurations, investigation of technologies for next generation aircraft as well as performance enhancement of existing aircraft, and supporting flight tests of experimental aircraft.

PUBLICATIONS:

Ph. D. SUPERVISION COMPLETED (The University of Texas at Austin):

  1. Marc Eitner. ASE/EM. August 2021. “Experimental Investigation of Fluid-Structure Interaction of a Compliant Panel under a Mach 2 Compression Ramp Shock-Boundary Layer Interaction”.
  2. Daijue Uehara. ASE/EM. December 2019. “Estimation of helicopter rotor loads from blade structural response”.
  3. Christopher Cameron. ASE/EM. December 2016. “Comprehensive Aeromechanical Measurements of a Model-Scale, Coaxial, Counter-Rotating Rotor System”.
  4. Anand Karpatne. ASE/EM. August 2015. “Study of compressible flow through a rotating duct”.
  5. Jerome Sicard. ASE/EM. May 2014. “Development of an Extremely Flexible, Variable- Diameter Rotor for a Micro-Helicopter”.

M. S. SUPERVISION COMPLETED (The University of Texas at Austin):

  1. Jason Tran, ASE/EM, Non-thesis, May 2016.
  2. Sergio Rizo-Patron, ASE/EM, “Operational Modal Analysis of a Rotating Cantilever Beam using High-Speed Digital Image Correlation”, December 2015.
  3. Christopher Cameron, ASE/EM, Non-thesis, December 2015.
  4. Brent Pafford, ASE/EM, “Magnetohydrodynamic Plasma Actuators for Retreating Blade Stall Alleviation”, May 2013.
  5.  Anand Karpatne, ASE/EM, “Investigation of Tip Vortex Aperiodicity in the Wake of aHelicopter in Hover”, August 2012.
  6. Michael Lawson, ASE/EM, “Measurement of Deformation of Rotating Blades Using DigitalImage Correlation”, August 2011.
  7.  George Jacobellis, ASE/EM, Non-thesis, May 2011.
  8. Jerome Sicard, ASE/EM, “Investigation of an Extremely Flexible, Stowable Rotor for Micro- Helicopters”, May 2011.
  9. Rohan Mahadik, ASE/EM, “Harvesting Wind Energy Using a Galloping Piezoelectric Beam”, December 2010.

HONORS AND AWARDS:

  • Technical Chair, AHS International Forum, 2017.
  • ASE/EM LUNAR Council Teaching Award, 2015.
  • Eli H. and Ramona Thornton Centennial Teaching Fellowship in Engineering, 2015.
  • One of the top 10 downloaded papers in Journal of Vibration and Acoustics, 2013-2015.
  • AIAA Associate Fellow, 2015.
  • Rotor Dynamics Session Best Paper Award: Sicard, J., and Sirohi, J., “Modeling of The Large Deformations of An Extremely Flexible Rotor Blade”, 38th European Rotorcraft Forum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 4-7, 2012.
  • ASME/Boeing Best Paper Award (Paper #AIAA 2011-1876), ASME Structures and Materials Technical Committee: Lawson M. S., and Sirohi J., “Measurement of Strain in Rotating Helicopter Blades Using Digital Image Correlation, AIAA-2011-1876, 52nd AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference, Denver, Colorado, April 2011.
  • Best paper award, Advanced Vertical Flight Technical Committee: Sirohi, J., and Datta, A., “Investigation of an Extremely Flexible Stowable Rotor”, AHS 65th Annual Forum, Grapevine, TX, 27-29 May 2009.
  • Best paper award, Aircraft Design Technical Committee: Samuel P., Sirohi J., Couch R., and Bohorquez F., “Development of a Rotary Wing MAV with an Active Flexible Structure for Stability and Control”, AHS 61st Annual Forum, Grapevine, TX, 1-3 June 2005.
  • Minta-Martin Fellowship, 2000 – 2001.
  • AHS Vertical Flight Foundation (VFF) Scholarship, 2000.
  • First place winning team in the 1998 AHS Helicopter Design Competition, sponsored by Boeing.

PATENTS:

  1. “Electric powered rotary-wing aircraft”, Sirohi, J., Lauder, T., Alber, M., and Bazzani, D., U.S. Patent 8,931,732, 13th January 2015.
  2. “Magnetic De-rotation System for a Shaft Fairing System”, Sirohi, J., and Lauder, T., U.S. Patent 8,584,983, 19th November 2013.
  3. “Fluid-Driven Artificial Muscles as Mechanisms for Controlled Actuation”, Kothera, C., Woods, B., Sirohi, J., Wereley, N., and Chen, P., U.S. Patent 7,837,144, 23rd November 2010.
  4. “Biomimetic Mechanism for Micro Aircraft”, Pines, D., Bohorquez, F. and Sirohi, J., U.S. Patent 6,938,853, 6th September 2005.