Yashank Gupta

- Lead R&D projects & managed R&D team, client relationships for AKKODIS with clients such as AIRBUS. - Managed KPI's, budget allocation, deliverables, timeline & team requirments of the R&D team. - Designed LQR based control law to control aircraft roll by rudder for the AIRBUS R&D project. - Lead in-house R&D activities. Developed flight simulator and added wind & turbulence functionality to the flight simulator. - Designed error model to compensate the error between theoretical & flight test data for AIRBUS R&D project. - Performed statistical analysis of flight test data for AIRBUS R&D project

- Managed Airbus research project for Altran, delegated work, identified objectives, the time-scale of the project, and coordinated with the client .i.e. AIRBUS. - Worked on the validation of the control laws of A350, A400M, A330-800, and A330-900 using OSMA SIMPA. - Worked on the Model-Based System Engineering (MBSE) for A350 using SIMBA. - Defined use-cases for the certification of drones for comp4drones project.

- Undertook a research study for ENGIE France Renewable energy (EFRE), provided decision-making elements for EFRE’s strategy on low wind-speed turbines and airborne wind energy systems (AWES). - Initiated collaboration with two French cleantech start-ups. Worked with them on their product development strategy & fixed their research objectives, and set-up a team of interns and engineers to carry the research for their product. - Initiated collaboration with a German venture capitalist firm and a market research group to study the economic feasibility of the Airborne Wind Energy Systems (AWES). Studied the investment & funding requirements of the AWE community for the next round of funding under the EU-Horizon2020 framework. - Identified the specifications for an MW sized Magnus-based Airborne Wind Energy systems (AWE). - Developed a 6-DOF model and designed attitude & guidance control laws for HAWES. - Undertook aerodynamic analysis of the AWES and proposed an aerodynamic model for Magnus effect based on AWES. - Performed in-flight estimation of various flight parameters using Kalman filter. - Proposed Power curves for Airborne Wind energy systems and drew comparisons with the classical wind turbines. - Represented the EOFLY research group in different Airborne Wind energy conferences and startup conventions. - Presented Work in IFAC World Congress 2017 and AWEC’17.

- Worked on Non-smooth optimization technique and developed control law algorithms for damping the vibrations originating from the aeroelastic behavior of the aircraft. - Performed statistical analysis of the uncertainties taken in account for the flexible aircraft.

- Worked with the product development team on the development of the flight simulator, and proposed improvements in the aerodynamic model of the flight simulator. - Developed lateral flight control laws for ALTRAN’s flight simulator using LPV Control method.

Worked on the Product development team developing ‘Coccinelle’ tool, a program matching and transformation engine.

Worked in International Operations - Assisted Vice- President of Mahindra After-sales services. - Performed market analysis of Mahindra’s automotive and farm equipment exports in South-America & South-East Asia. - Lead the launch of the after-sales service kit 2011 version for all Mahindra’s International distributors. - Worked with the legal team to draft the Lemon law policy for Mahindra vehicles in the USA. - Conducted distributor and customer satisfaction surveys for more than 36 countries. - Formulated country-specific aftersales strategy for increasing the MUV sales in Chile, Peru, and Argentina.

Built a working prototype of a series hybrid engine.

- Worked on Magnetic attitude Controller of Nano-Satellites - ‘Pratham’ IIT Bombay Nano- satellite Project launched by ISRO (Indian Space & Research Organization) on 26th September 2016 - Studied and developed a control law for the attitude control using MATLAB.

Computer aided synthesis of mechanisms analysis of four link mechanisms.