Venkata Ramana Makkapati

Engineer, AFCS And Advanced Research at Honda Aircraft Company

Venkata Ramana Makkapati is an experienced engineer currently working at Honda Aircraft Company in the AFCS and Advanced Research department since July 2021. Prior to this role, Venkata served as a Graduate Research Assistant at the Dynamics and Control Systems Laboratory at Georgia Tech from August 2016 to May 2021, contributing to projects focused on hypersonic vehicle control design, autonomous vehicle operations, and uncertain differential games. Additional experience includes a research internship at Foresight AI Inc., a graduate teaching assistant position at Georgia Tech, and summer internships at Mahindra & Mahindra and CSIR-National Aerospace Laboratories. Venkata holds a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering and a Master's in Computational Science and Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, as well as a Master's in Aerospace Engineering and a Bachelor's in Aerospace Engineering from the Indian Institutes of Technology.

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At Honda Aircraft Company, we are enhancing people’s lives through innovative technology in aviation with the betterment of humankind in mind. For over six decades, Honda has been a global symbol for intelligent and efficient technologies that have contributed to continual human progress and have radically advanced personal mobility worldwide. Honda’s commitment to taking personal mobility skyward to support the change-makers of tomorrow gave birth to Honda Aircraft Company. We are more than creators of technologically advanced aircraft — we are the bridge between people and the connection to the world around us. As the only established automobile company to successfully enter the aviation market with type certification, we are pioneers in challenging conventional notions in this industry. We use our newcomer status to our advantage by finding innovative solutions to transform business aviation and make it more efficient and accessible. As Honda’s most novel division, we embody a start-up company culture of embracing creativity and diversity of thought, as well as our President and CEO Hideto Yamasaki’s vision of revolutionizing the aviation industry with imagination and an unwavering spirit of innovation. Today, our dynamic team is taking on the modern challenges of mobility and creating aircraft at the intersection of art and engineering. For the past five consecutive years, the HondaJet has defied all odds as an industry newcomer and has achieved the coveted No. 1 delivery status in its class. This achievement was only possible due to our Honda culture of always striving to exceed expectations and thinking outside the box. Our goal is to continue creating the most cutting-edge and low-emission technologies for our aircraft and this can only be accomplished with passionate, big-hearted dreamers. Come join our diverse team of visionaries to reimagine and develop the future of mobility in the skies.