EVTOL and Drones
Electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, drone projects, and the emerging field of urban air mobility. This category includes original research on eVTOL air taxi corridors in the San Francisco Bay Area — analyzing potential routes between NASA Ames Research Center and UC Berkeley, evaluating energy requirements for electric flight over that distance, and mapping where vertiports could realistically be placed given Bay Area geography and airspace constraints. That research was developed into a paper presented at an AIAA conference. You’ll also find a detailed build log for a custom drone designed for atmospheric data collection — covering frame design, motor and propeller selection, flight controller setup, and sensor integration for gathering weather data at altitude. The posts explore both the near-term practical applications of drones and the longer-term vision of electric aviation transforming short-range urban transportation.
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Presenting Air Taxi Research at Stanford’s Aerospace Symposium
The Jen-Hsun Huang Engineering Center at Stanford was buzzing with aerospace researchers. PhDs, postdocs, industry engineers, government lab scientists, and…
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Summer Research at NASA Ames: Reducing Air Taxi Noise During Climb
A summer research project at NASA Ames exploring how eVTOL air taxi climb trajectories can be optimized to reduce noise…
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Designing the Future of Air Taxis in the Bay Area
I’m incredibly excited to share that our research paper, “Operational Air Taxi Flight Routes in a Metropolitan Region,” has been…
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Presenting at an AIAA Conference!
Over the past year, I’ve been fortunate to conduct research in collaboration with Professor Alexandre Bayen at UC Berkeley, exploring…
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Mapping eVTOL Flight Between NASA Ames and UC Berkeley
A few months ago, we kicked off a project to explore what it would take to create an air corridor…
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Connecting NASA Ames to UC Berkeley: An eVTOL Corridor Concept
Jordan Kam and I are kicking off a new project that explores the possibility of creating an aerial corridor between…
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Building a DIY Drone for Atmospheric Data Collection
Today I started building a new drone. My goal is to use it to attach sensors to it and gather…
