School of Aerospace Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA, 30332
Email: bkumar30@gatech.edu
Email: bkumar30@gatech.edu
Curriculum Vitae (updated 23 Feb 2022)
I am a Ph.D. candidate and NASA Space Technology Research Fellow (NSTRF) in the School of Mathematics at Georgia Tech, advised by Prof. Rafael de la Llave. I am also an M.S. student in the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Tech. I am an NSTRF visiting technologist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, where my mentor and research collaborator is Dr. Rodney Anderson.
Starting this fall, I will be an NSF postdoctoral research fellow at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. I am also still looking for permanent academic or government research lab (including FFRDC) positions.
At a broad level, my interests lie in the application of tools and results from mathematical dynamical systems theory, both analytical and computational, to various problems in celestial mechanics and applied astrodynamics for space mission design. In particular, there are geometric structures, such as periodic orbits, invariant tori, and stable and unstable manifolds, which govern many of the important dynamical properties of multi-body celestial systems. I am interested in developing fast and accurate methods for computing these objects as well as for investigating the dynamics induced by them. I am also working on applications of these methods to current and relevant problems in astrodynamics, with a current focus on tour design in the Jovian system (although our tools are general and applicable to other systems as well).