Girish Chowdhary

Girish Chowdhary has a long and varied work experience. From 2004 to 2006, they were a Research Engineer at the German Aerospace Center (DLR). From 2006 to 2011, they were a Research Engineer II and a Ph.D candidate and GRA at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Girish's dissertation was on Concurrent Learning for Convergence in Adaptive Control Without Persistency of Excitation. In 2008, they were a Co-op Controls Engineer at Adaptive Flight Incorporated. From 2011 to 2013, they were a Postdoctoral Associate at MIT, working on creating technologies for enabling persistent search and track missions and fundamental research in using Bayesian nonparametric techniques for making inferences about and decentralized planning for hetereogeneous multi-agent cooperative networks. From 2013 to 2014, they were an Assistant Professor at Oklahoma State University and a Co-founder and VP of Technology at Unmanned Cowboys. From 2016 to the present, they have been an Associate Professor and Donald Biggar Willet Faculty Fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at EarthSense, Inc.

Girish Chowdhary received a Doctor of Philosophy in Aerospace Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2010, following a Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering from the same institution in 2006. In 2003, they completed a Bachelor of Engineering in Aerospace Engineering from RMIT University. Girish also holds a FAA Remote Pilot in Command certification from the Federal Aviation Administration.