Mahad Mohammed Mirza

I am an enthusiastic and reliable team player with a strong interest in aeronautics, particularly aircraft design and flight testing. I was raised by healthcare professionals, who taught me diligence and detail attentiveness from an early age. I aim to apply these qualities in tackling engineering challenges and developing deeper expertise in flight test operations.

I have gained diverse hands-on experience across aviation operations, digital automation, and unmanned systems research. As a Ground Operations and Publicity Intern at K-Air Aviation, I assisted in flight dispatch and ground handling of Cessna Citation Jet 2 aircraft, observing MRO procedures and regulatory airworthiness practices while also contributing to marketing material design for the company’s pilot academy. At the SITRAIN Digital Industry Academy, I worked with SIEMENS TIA Portal, developing control logic for SIMATIC S7-1200 PLCs and optimizing PLC–Drive communication for sensor-based autonomous systems. Currently, as an Undergraduate Research Assistant in the AirCRAFT Lab, I support the structural and systems design of a competition UAS, contribute to hybrid fixed-wing/VTOL simulation and modelling workflows, and assist in flight testing using PX4 and QGroundControl.

I'm an undergraduate student currently in my first semester of Junior year, pursuing Aerospace Engineering at Saint Louis University. I aim to continue doing UAS research in the AirCRAFT (Aircraft Computational & Resource Aware Fault Tolerance) Lab at SLU School of Science and Engineering.