Director

Dr. Rajan Kumar

Rajan Kumar

Rajan Kumar is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering. He earned his BE in Aeronautical Engineering from Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh, MS and PhD in Aerospace Engineering from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. He is currently the Director of the Florida Center for Advanced Aero-Propulsion (FCAAP), a multiuniversity, state-wide research, technology and education center established in 2008. Dr. Kumar is an experimental aerodynamicist with 25+ years of experience (academia and government research Laboratory) in experimental aerodynamics, high-alpha aerodynamics, flow control, advanced flow diagnostics, weapon integration and store/stage separation studies.

Email: rkumar@eng.famu.fsu.edu Office Phone: 850-645-0149

Faculty Members

The interdisciplinary team covers a broad range of areas related to aeronautics, aerospace, propulsion and space sciences.

Dr. Farrukh Alvi

Dr. William Oates

Dr. Chiang Shih

Dr. Brandon Krick

Dr. Kourosh Shoele

Dr. S. Unnikrishnan

Dr. Neda Yaghoobian

Research Faculty & Staff

Alex Karns

Tunnel Engineer

Ben Kepple

Tunnel Engineer

Dr. Jonas Gustavsson

Research Scientist

Michael Sheehan

Research Scientist

Nikhil Khobragade

Postdoctoral Researcher

Bikash Mahato

Postdoctoral Researcher

Dr. Burak Tuna

Research Scientist 

Dr. Redha Wahidi

Research Scientist

Graduate Students

Akshay Anand

Mohamad Aslani

Tomas Babuska

Adrianne Brown

Gargi Dashora

Adam Delong

Chelsea Dodge

Iago Dos Santos

Ritambhara Dubey

Cameron Eggart

Catherine Fidd

Kimone George

Rhylan Huss

Aojia Jiang

Kunal Kanawade

Shivanshu Kumar

Santiago Lazarte

Joseph Lupton

Bikash Mahato

Gautam Maurya

Noah Moffeit

Alireza Moradikazerouni

Oluwafemi Ojo

Bryce Outten

Royce Pokela

Anirudh Prasad

Ross Richarson

Yousef Saleh

Saurabh Saxena

Serdar Seckin

Al Shahriar

Eric Smith

Robert Smith

MyungJun Song

Vahid Tavanashad

Akriti Tripathi

Kylie Van Meter

Cayla Walker

Jordan Wilkerson

Heitor Mattos

Alumni

Dr. Vikas Bhargav

Dr. Roopesh Kumar

Austin Robertson

Dr. Jinfang Wang

Dr. Roy Mason

Dr. Tso-Kang Wang

Dr. Gregory Robertson

Dr. Andrew Baldwin

Dr. Chelsea Dodge

Dr. Tomas Solano

Dr. Tufan Guha

Dr. Fernando Zigunov

David Dawson

Kade Alley

Dr. Lee Mears

Karsten Kopperstad

Dr. Yogesh Mehta