Abdul Hannan Faruqi

Abdul Hannan Faruqi was born in Aligarh, India, in 1998. He graduated from Our Lady of Fatima High School, Aligarh, with recognition of “Excellence in Academics.” He received the B.Tech. degree (Hons.) in mechanical engineering from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, in 2020. He is currently pursuing the M.S. degree in mechanical engineering, with a specialization in robotics and automation, with the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT-K), India. From 2018 to 2020, he performed his undergraduate research at the Computational Aerodynamics Laboratory, Aligarh Muslim University, and developed advanced algorithms for flow simulation and stability analysis. In Summer 2019, he participated in the Fields Undergraduate Summer Research Program at The Fields Institute, Toronto, Canada, where he undertook the study presented herein. He is currently a Graduate Research Assistant in Robotics at IIT-Kanpur. His research interests include the areas of computational algorithms, autonomous systems, and fluid dynamics. He seeks to develop advanced real-time computational techniques for integrating cognitive abilities in autonomous systems. He has written a chapter for Modern Mathematical Methods and High Performance Computing in Science and Technology (Springer, 2020). Mr. Faruqi was a recipient of the Post Graduate Scholarship at IIT-K, the J. Brammer Graduate Research Fellowship, the Sir Syed Global Scholar Award, and the National Standard Examination-Certificate of Merit in Biology, in 2016. His team was the National Winner in Smart India Hackathon–2019, organized by Government of India.