Ravi Mathur

Dr. Ravi Mathur is the Director of Research and Development and oversees the creation of Emergent’s cutting-edge technologies, from inception to integration into Emergent’s products and into NASA, DOD, and commercial programs. Ravi has been with Emergent since 2012, after receiving his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin with a focus on spacecraft trajectory design and optimization. He received an M.S. in Aerospace Engineering from UT Austin for his work on real-time 3D interactive visualizations applied to aerospace software.

Ravi has worked on aerospace software tool development projects in both the civil and defense sectors, including NASA’s General Mission Analysis Tool (GMAT) and NASA’s Copernicus trajectory optimization tool, and was on the winning team for the 2021 NASA Software of the Year Award for the latter.