Pradipto Ghosh is a Senior Professional Staff with the Mission Design and Navigation Group of the JHU APL Space Exploration Sector (SES). His interests are Computational and Operational Astrodynamics, Stochastic Optimal Control, Numerical Optimization, and Differential Games. Dr. Ghosh is also an Adjunct Faculty at the JHU Mechanical Engineering Department, where he has taught Mission Design. He serves as a member of the AIAA Astrodynamics Technical Committee, and regularly chairs/co-chairs AAS/AIAA spaceflight conferences.

Education History

  • B.S. Electrical Engineering, University of Calcutta
  • B.S. Physics, University of Calcutta
  • MS Aerospace Engineering, University of Cincinnati
  • PHD Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Work Experience

Senior Professional Staff, JHU Applied Physics Laboratory

Professional Organizations

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)