Philip Panicker

Senior Lecturer, Mechanical Engineering Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Education: PhD University of Texas, Arlington

pkp3@nyu.edu

Research Areas: waste-to-energy conversion, CubeSats, experimental gas dynamics, supersonic and hypersonic aerodynamics, high-speed air-breathing propulsion systems, including pulsed detonation engines, instrumentation and experimental testing

Philip Panicker, Senior Lecturer and Coordinator of Engineering Academic Laboratories, NYUAD

Philip Panicker is an aerospace engineer and member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). Panicker joined NYUAD in September 2012 and also serves as the coordinator of academic labs for the Engineering Division and as faculty coordinator of the Engineers For Social Impact initiative.

Panicker’s research work centers on waste-to-energy conversion, CubeSat systems, experimental gas dynamics, including supersonic and hypersonic aerodynamics and experimental development of pulsed detonation engines and other high-speed air-breathing propulsion systems. He received his MS and PhD in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington. Panicker was awarded a Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship at UT Arlington from 2008 to 2010, during which he was the lead researcher heading the development of pulsed detonation engines, which was a project funded by Temasek Labs at the National University of Singapore.

- University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas
  Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering (August 2008)
- University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas
  M.S. in Aerospace Engineering (August 2003)
- M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India
  B.E. in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering (1996)
- New York University Abu Dhabi,
  Senior Lecturer and Coordinator of Teaching Labs, Engineering Division
  From: October 2012 – Present
- University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas
  Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Aerodynamics Research Center, Mechanical, and Aerospace Engineering Department
  From: May 2008 – March 2010
- University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas
  Lecturer, Mechanical, and Aerospace Engineering Department
  From: May 2007 – May 2008
- John DeYoung Outstanding Research Award, 2003, 2007
- Rudolf Hermann’s Graduate Fellowship, 4 years, Fall 2004
- Kalpana Chawla Scholarship 2007/08, Fall 2007

Philip Panicker

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