Naik, Kartik Praful

Dr. Naik received his Ph.D. from the mechanical and aerospace department in North Carolina State University where he worked on the experimental demonstration and fuse physical design-control system optimization of a novel renewable energy harvesting concept (underwater kites). He continued his work in co-design at the RACElab in NAME as a postdoc switching to reconfigurable turbine arrays. He is now the project manager for a an ARPA-E project under the SHARKS program and continues his research on co-design, real-time control implementation on hardware, and tech-to-market avenues for emerging technologies.