Imon Chakraborty, Ph.D. AE '15 will be teaching at Auburn University

Imon Chakraborty and Dimitri Mavris
Fond Farewell. Longtime student and research engineer Imon Chakraborty, left, accepts a commemorative ASDL trophy from Prof. Dimitri Mavris during a Farewell Party held on Aug. 2. Chakraborty will begin teaching aerospace engineering at Auburn University in the fall. (photo: Yu Cai)


After nearly a decade on the Georgia Tech campus, Imon Chakraborty, Ph.D. AE '15, is leaving the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering to take a tenure track teaching position at Auburn University.

A research engineer in the Aerospace Systems Design Lab (ASDL) for almost three years, Chakraborty will begin his duties as an assistant professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Auburn University on August 16.

For Prof. Dimitri Mavris, Chakraborty's doctoral advisor and boss at ASDL, the departure is bittersweet.

"In many ways, we are victims of our own success," he said on August 2, during a farewell party that ASDL staged for Chakraborty. "We know that Auburn is getting a very smart, very talented individual. We know this, because we worked alongside him for years. Imon contributed greatly."

A native of West Bengal, India, Chakraborty earned his master's degree with Prof. Panagiotis Tsiotras and his Ph.D. under the tutelage of Mavris. One of his final gestures of gratitude to his longtime mentor will be a bound copy of his doctoral dissertation, "Subsystem Architecture Sizing and Analysis for Aircraft Conceptual Design."

"As a part of the ASDL, I got exposure to a great diversity of projects that expanded my grasp of the discipline and gave me great insight into how research is planned, conducted, and managed," he said. "I also made a lot of contacts in academia, industry, and government. I look forward to continuing my research at Auburn."