Ben Davoudi

Ben Davoudi is a Collegiate Professor in the Department of Aerospace & Ocean Engineering at Virginia Tech. He holds a PhD and MS in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan. His research focuses on autonomous systems, navigation in extreme conditions, flight simulation, aeromechanics, drone applications, aeroacoustics, and computational fluid dynamics (CFD).

Education: PhD and MS in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan.

Research expertise spans autonomous UAVs, trajectory planning, pesticide drone applications, and environmental flight characteristics. His work integrates computer vision and complex systems modeling.

Professional honors include the 2021 Gupta Values Scholarship, 2017 Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Fellowship, and Rackham International Student Fellowship (2016).

Professional history includes roles as a Research Fellow at the University of Michigan (2021–2024) and Graduate Research Assistant in the Computational Aeroscience Lab (2016–2021).

His teaching activities include courses related to aerospace engineering, though specific details are not elaborated here.