Summary
Vrushabh Zinage is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Caltech with nine years of experience in aerospace engineering, specializing in optimization, learning-based control, motion planning, and autonomy. He earned a PhD from UT Austin and a B.Tech from IIT Madras, and has contributed to a broad set of high-impact robotics and control publications (LCSS, RAL, ICRA, TAC, ACC, CDC, AIAA SciTech). His work spans theory and flight-relevant applications, including control algorithms for satellite pointing (GRACE Follow On) and fast online trajectory generation in cluttered environments. An active peer reviewer (140+ reviews, multiple top conferences and journals) and Mensa member, he blends rigorous academic scholarship with practical system-building experience from internships at Airbus, Honeywell, and collaborative labs. Colleagues know him for connecting principled control theory with scalable, safe learning methods that transfer to real-world aerospace systems.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Aerospace Engineering, Control, Autonomy and Robotics., Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Aerospace Engineering, Control, Autonomy and Robotics. at The University of Texas at Austin
California Institute of Technology
Hindi, English, Marathi, Kannada