General Director
Satellite Technology Research Center (SaTReC)

• Professor of Aerospace Engineering at KAIST and Director of Rocket Lab KAIST
• Director General of SaTReC (Satellite Research Center) at KAIST (2018~2020)
• Authored more than 200 papers on rockets and spacecraft propulsion system
• Supervised 49 Ph.D.‘s
• Invited Professor at ISAS by Japanese Ministry of Education (2001)
• Invited Professor at Poitiers University by CNRS, France (2008)
• Research in space propulsion system with non-toxic propellants;
  Monopropellant, bipropellant, hypergolic bipropellant thrusters and rocket engine
• Developed and ground-tested a moon lander demonstrator (2008)
• Test-launched sounding rockets with hybrid propulsion system (2016~2018)

Krishnan Mahesh is Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics at the University of Minnesota. His research focuses on algorithm development, theoretical analysis and modeling of multi-physics turbulent flows. Mahesh is a 2018 Fulbright-Nehru Specialist, Fellow of the American Physical Society, Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Fellow of the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute. He is a recipient of the CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation and the Francois N. Frenkiel award from the American Physical Society. He has received the Taylor award for Distinguished Research, McKnight Presidential Fellowship, Guillermo E. Borja award and McKnight Land-Grant Professorship from the University of Minnesota. Mahesh has over 150 publications in journals and refereed conferences, and has advised 20 PhD students. He is Associate Editor of the International Journal of Multiphase Flow.

Born in 1978 in Ingolstadt near Munich (Germany).
Diploma in numerical mathematics 2006.
Research Associate in the Gas-Dynamics department at TUM 2006-2009 and group leader of gas-dynamics group at TUM from 2009 until today at the chair of aerodynamics and fluid mechanics (AER / TUM).
Doctorate “summa cum laudae” 2015 on numerical prediction of cavitating flows and erosive damage

Originally from Hang Zhou, Zhejiang Province, China, Kunyuan Zhang is a Professor in the College of Energy and Power Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He has conducted research in the field of inlet aerodynamics for Ramjet and Scramjet for 41 years. He was visiting scholar in the Institute for Aerospace Studies, University of Toronto from 1983 to 1985 and also visiting scholar in the German Aerospace Center (DLR) from 1990 to 1993. His research interests include airbreathing hypersonic propulsion, aerodynamics for inlet and nozzle, shock waves and shock interactions. Over the past two decades Professor Kunyuan Zhang and his team have studied extensively the theory of hypersonic inlet with curved compression and systematically established its inverse design methodology. He has authored or co-authored around 100 scientific papers and he is the author of recently published book titled with Hypersonic Curved Compression Inlet and its Inverse Design.

Address: College of Energy and Power Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, 210016, China
Tel. +86 139 5203 2259
E-mail: zkype@nuaa.edu.cn