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Rishi Chandra

PhD candidate at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, studying ice shelf rift dynamics on the Ross Ice Shelf and building instruments for the Moon. NSF Graduate Research Fellow.

Current Work

Glaciology

Ross Ice Shelf Rift Dynamics

Investigating rift kinematics on the Ross Ice Shelf using satellite remote sensing, connecting flowband geometry to opening rates and exploring implications for ice shelf stability and Enceladus analog science.

Systems Engineering

SeisLEMS Lunar Seismometer

V&V and requirements engineering for a lunar seismometer instrument associated with the Artemis program. Applying systems-theoretic formalisms to SE practice.

SE Research

Salado's Systems-Theoretic Framework

Applying formal requirements frameworks to real-world SE problems, bridging the gap between systems theory and engineering practice.

Recent Writing

Posts coming soon — check back for writeups on interpretability experiments, glaciology methods, and systems engineering research.