Varun Sudarsanan, PhD

As Cignus' R&D Program Director, Varun focuses on R&D to solve system-level challenges in aviation across aircraft trajectory prediction, machine learning, large-scale data analysis, systems engineering, and modeling and simulation. He has served as Principal Investigator for two NASA SBIR projects and lead researcher for several R&D contracts including MANOR, the Surface Anomaly and Intent Forecast System, and RAPIDS — a deep learning framework for terminal airspace trajectory prediction that earned the ACRP graduate research award. He has published several peer-reviewed AIAA conference and journal papers in aviation safety and operations.