Honor Society® member
Kshitij Mall
Software Engineer Trainee at Infosys Technologies Ltd. India
- Purdue University
- Aerospace Engineering
- Class of 2017
- West Lafayette, IN
Member since December 2014
About
2 years + experience at Rapid Design of Systems Lab working on rapid trajectory optimization for human-class Mars missions. Invented the term loft coefficient during this period.
7 months experience at Infosys Technologies Limited and 2 months experience at IIT Kanpur.
Represented Purdue Aerospace department as an exchange student at Keio University, Japan working on risk analysis of human Mars missions and at Beijing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics (BUAA) attending a graduate summer school program.
Part of 4 honors societies, founder of two aerospace organizations, team leader and manager of Team Kanau (collaboration between Purdue and Keio students) international student design project for Mars flyby mission that won first prize at NASA Johnson Space Center.
Education
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Purdue University
Aerospace Engineering
2011 – 2017
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JSS Academy of Technical Education, Noida, India
Mechanical Engineering
2006 – 2010
Honors and awards
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First place, Inspiration Mars Student Design Competition
Manager and co-founder of team that won against 37 other international teams on a human Mars flyby mission to be launched in 2018.
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Aerospace Academic Honor
Among top 10% of aerospace grad students at Purdue conferred by Sigma Gamma Tau.
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Engineering Honor
Among top 1/8 of engineering students at Purdue conferred by Tau Beta Pi
Goals and interests
- Career goal
Actively work on human missions to Mars after completing Ph.D.
- Graduate school interests
Already a grad student at Purdue.
- Outside the classroom
Aerospace projects, singing, dancing, dramatics, creative writing, sports including lawn tennis, cricket, soccer, chess and half marathon races.
Experience
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Software Engineer Trainee
Infosys Technologies Ltd. India
Oct 2010 – May 2011
Volunteering
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Volunteer perfomer
ASHA Purdue
Sep 2013
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Guest Speaker
Oooojoooo
May 2013 – Feb 2015
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Volunteer
Martin Luther King Day
Jan 2012
Languages
- English (US) Advanced
- Hindi Advanced
- Japanese Intermediate
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