VISHAL K MEENA

PhD Student @ UT Austin | Ex-Rocket Scientist | Inventor


 vpiloda@alumni.iitd.ac.in | linkedin.com/in/vpiloda | www.vpiloda.com

About me

Vishal Kumar Meena received the B.Tech degree (2018) in electrical engineering along with a departmental specialization in VLSI and embedded systems from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Delhi (IIT-D), India, where his research was focused on CMOS image sensor design.
Since 2018, he has been working at Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Trivandrum, India, as a Scientist/Engineer, where he is responsible for the design, development, and qualification of the power processing units for electric propulsion systems. His current research activities focus on high-power soft-switching DC-DC converters for space applications, GaNFET based high power density converters, control electronics for electro-mechanical actuators and pressure regulators, discharge filter design for hall-effect thrusters, and machine learning assisted power electronics design and quality assessment.

Professional life

Invented & Realized 

"A Configurable Voltage-Scalable High-Power Soft-Switching Space-Grade DC-DC Converter "

Achieved world-class efficiency for  the realized Discharge Supply by employing ZVZCS  (η: realized PPU Discharge Supply= 93% (peak-96%), NASA’s Lunar Gateway PPU = 95%)  

Vishal K Meena and Manju Nair, ”ZVZCS Topology based High-Voltage High-Efficiency Discharge Supply for a 5kW Stationary Plasma Thruster,” IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, submitted.

Personal life

“And, when you want something, 

all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”

- Paulo Coelho


“Two roads diverged in a wood, 

and I took the one less traveled by, 

And that has made all the difference.”

- Robert Frost


"If you can make one heap of all your winnings

And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings

And never breathe a word about your loss.."  

- Rudyard Kipling


"      मैं तूफ़ानों में चलने का आदी हूँ

  तुम मत मेरी मंज़िल आसान करो।


अंगार अधर पे धर मैं मुस्काया हूँ

         मैं मर्घट से ज़िंदगी बुला के लाया हूँ

हूँ आँख-मिचौनी खेल चला क़िस्मत से

  सौ बार मृत्यु के गले चूम आया हूँ

है नहीं स्वीकार दया अपनी भी

      तुम मत मुझ पर न कोई एहसान करो।"

- गोपालदास नीरज