Chetan S. Kulkarni is a KBR Sr. Technical Fellow and staff researcher at NASA Ames Research Center's Prognostics Center of Excellence, specializing in Systems Diagnostics, Prognostics and Health Management. His work centers on developing physics-based models and prognostics for aeronautics and space exploration systems.
He holds an MS ('09) and Ph.D. ('13) from Vanderbilt University, where he was a Graduate Research Assistant and BE (’02) University of Pune. Prior to joining Vanderbilt University, he conducted research at IIT-Bombay, focusing on low-cost substation automation and high voltage transformers. Earlier in his career, he was part of Honeywell's Power Automation group in India, contributing to power automation projects and product development.He is Fellow of the PHM Society (FPHMS), AIAA Associate Fellow and SMIEEE. He serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE, SAE, and IJPHM Journals on Prognostics and Systems Health Management and has co-chaired Technical Program Committees at PHME18 and PHM 20-24.
