Academic Degrees
B.Tech., 2000, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (India) M.S., 2002, Stanford University Ph.D., 2006, Stanford University
Hamsa Balakrishnan
Associate Department Head
William E. Leonhard (1940) Professor of Aeronautics & Astronautics
Contact
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
33-207 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
Administrative Assistant
Pam Fradkin
fradkin [at] mit.edu
Financial Officer
Ping Lee
pmlee [at] mit.edu
Honors and Awards
AIAA Undergraduate Teaching Award, 2019; AACC Donald P. Eckman Award, 2014; AIAA Undergraduate Advising Award, 2014; AIAA Associate Fellow, 2013; CNA Award for Operational Analysis, 2012; AIAA Lawrence Sperry Award, 2012; Kevin Corker Award for Best Paper in USA/Europe Air Traffic Management R&D Seminar, 2011; NSF CAREER Award, 2008; Gerald Lieberman Fellowship, Stanford University, 2005 – 2006; Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. Prize, IIT Madras, 2000.
Society Memberships
Associate Fellow, AIAA; Member, IEEE; Member, INFORMS
Positions Held at MIT
Assistant Professor, January 2007-2012; Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2012-2019; Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2019-present; Associate Department Head, July 2018-present
Positions Held outside MIT
NASA Ames Research Center (UC Santa Cruz): Principal Development Engineer, Terminal Area ATM Research Branch (April-December 2006)
Specialization and Research Interests
Air traffic management, controls; optimization; networked systems; transportation
Teaching Interests
Air Transportation Operations Research (16.763); Unified Engineering Signals and Systems (16.002)