Biomedical Engineering Reference
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Assistant Research Scientist in the Alfred Gessow
Rotorcraft Center at the University of Maryland
at College Park. In 2007, he joined the Advanced
Concepts group in Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation,
and in August 2008, he joined the faculty at the
University of Texas at Austin.
He is interested in hovering micro-aerial
vehicles, specifically in the effect of scaling and
Reydesnolds number on the figure of merit of
rotors and the reduced-order aeroelastic mod-
eling of flapping wings. His present research
activities include development of actuators
and sensors for active helicopter rotors, aeroe-
lasticity of flexible rotor blades, investigation
of the efficiencies of different micro-aerial
vehicle configurations, and measurement of
rotor loads.
Jayant Sirohi
is an Assistant Professor in the
Department of Aerospace Engineering and
Engineering Mechanics, at the University of Texas
at Austin. He obtained his BTech degree in
Aerospace Engineering from the Indian Institute
of Technology, Chennai, India in 1996 and his MS
and PhD degrees from the University of Maryland
at College Park in 2002. He then worked as an
