Abhishek Bichal

Personal Information:

Birthday: June 11th

Hometown: Hyderabad, India

Education Information:

University of Dayton (M.S. Aerospace Engineering) - Dayton, Ohio - 2008

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (B.Tech. Aeronautical Engineering) - Hyderabad, India - 2004

Kendriya Vidyalaya - Hyderabad, India - 1999

Experience

• Teaching Assistantship with the Aerospace Department at Auburn University since August 2008

• Research Assistantship with the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at University of Dayton January 2007 to May 2008

• Assistant Professor with Institute of Aeronautical Engineering handling Aerodynamics and Engineering Drawing for the period of October 2004 to May 2005

Honors

• Recipient of the 'Diversity Program of the Year 2009 -07' at University of Dayton

• Nomination for the emerging leader of the year 2006 at the University of Dayton

• Koehler Award in the year 2006 at University of Dayton

• Best question at the Astro-physics seminar on the eve of golden jubilee celebrations of Indian independance at IICT

• Runner-up at the ICS (Informatic Computer Systems)

Activities

• President Indian Students Association 2006-07 at University of Dayton

• Worked with American Cancer Society (ACS) for Cancer Fund Raise

• Student Member, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

• Founder and President Student Technical Association (STA) at college

• Captian Co-curricular Activities in high school

Conference Presentations

A. Bichal, B. Thurow, "Development of a Background Oriented Schlieren Based Wavefront Sensor for Aero-Optics," 40th Fluid Dynamics Conference and Exhibit, 28 June-1 July 2010, Chicago, Illinois.

A. Bichal, A. Altman, "Comparative Study of Three Flow Diagnostic Techniques Applied To a Nearbody Flowfield" 47th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, 5-8 January 2009, Reno, Nevada.

A. M. Briones, S. Stouffer, A. Bichal, H. Kang, A. Altman, E. Corporan, V. Belovich, "Aspiration Efficiencies of a Soot-Particulate Sampling Probe with Dilution Under Gas Turbine Conditions," 44th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conferenece and Exhibit, 21-23 July 2008, Hartford, CT

H. Kang, A. Bichal, A. Altman, "Aerodynamic Effects of End Plates on Biplane Wings," 46th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, 7-10 JAnuary 2008, Reno, Nevada.

Interests:

FormulaOne Racing, playing Wii, ping pong, PIV, etc.