MADHAV
SEHGAL
I architect, analyze, and test systems built to survive space — from lunar navigation constellations and CubeSat missions to supersonic inlets and flight hardware qualified for launch. M.S. Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan.
Built for hard engineering problems.
From New Delhi to Michigan — one trajectory: build things that fly, and prove they'll survive.
I'm an aerospace engineer pursuing my M.S. at the University of Michigan, working across the full stack of spaceflight: model-based systems engineering, high-speed aerodynamics, structural test, and machine learning applied where it actually earns its keep.
I earned my B.Tech with Honors in Spacecraft Engineering from Amity University, where I spent three years as Lead Systems Engineer of a NASA Human Exploration Rover team — running requirements, FMEA, and integration for 25 engineers, and bringing home a NASA Safety Award.
At Michigan I've built Bayesian neural networks for shock-train prediction in the Gas Dynamics Imaging Lab, qualified flight hardware through TVAC and vibration at the Space Physics Research Laboratory, and I'm currently architecting satellite data systems for precision agriculture under Professor Steve Battel.
Before any of that, I founded JarWiz — an AI-driven STEM education platform that served 3,000+ students across India for four years. I like building things end to end, then proving they work.
B.Tech Aero (Honors), Amity
Trajectory to date.
From founding a rocketry-obsessed EdTech startup in Delhi to qualifying flight hardware in Ann Arbor — every entry below moved the same mission forward.
Selected missions & programs.
Thirteen missions across systems architecture, high-speed aero, structures, and software. Open any dossier for the objective, approach, results, toolchain — and an interactive CAD model where hardware was involved.
Capabilities matrix.
Six subsystems, all reporting nominal. Hover a panel to interrogate the spacecraft.
Awards & recognition.
Publications.
Peer-reviewed work spanning shock-train dynamics, SWBLI flow control, structural vibration, and sustainable space infrastructure.
Notes from the lab.
Long-form signal on what I'm building and what it's teaching me — uncertainty-aware CFD, MBSE in practice, engineering under real constraints.
Establish contact.
Building something that has to fly?
Let's talk.
Open to research collaborations, internships, and full-time roles in spacecraft systems engineering, mission design, high-speed aerodynamics, and flight hardware test. Based in Ann Arbor, MI.