Dr. Rashi Jain is an aerospace engineer specializing in the design, evaluation, and development of resilient, safety-critical systems for space exploration. She earned her Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Purdue University, where she developed the Resilience Potential metric — a framework for selecting safety controls in complex, resource-constrained systems such as lunar habitats.
Her work, applied to NASA-supported lunar habitat studies and presented at major aerospace conferences, includes co-developing the Control-Oriented Dynamic Computational Modeling (CDCM) platform and leading the modeling of a detailed lunar habitat to simulate multi-system interactions, evaluate hazard mitigation strategies, and optimize safety controls.
She is an active member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and Sigma Gamma Tau, has served as Crew Journalist at the Mars Desert Research Station, and is a student pilot with over 30 hours of flight experience in a Piper Warrior.
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