Bidushi Bhattacharya Phd, Capm, Emgm Email & Phone Number

United States

Aliso Viejo, Us

As CEO and Founder of AstroHub, a startup dedicated to space workforce development, I have brought together a global team of passionate engineers to develop and implement a unique, remote access learning platform for companies, universities, and schools around the world. Our team has successfully developed a CubeSat MVP and offered workshops around this platform to paying customers. AstroHub has also acquired and completed a number of commercial contracts to broker and manage student payload deliveries to the International Space Station. AstroHub regularly offers NewSpace-related workshops online to grow the commercial space workforce. To expand AstroHub's reach and impact, I also speak extensively to the media and regularly give invited talks about the commercial space sector. As CEO, I am responsible for• Business and proposal development for international, commercial and government customers• Contract development, execution and compliance• Curriculum development and implementation• Budgetary, compliance, operations management for all aspects of a small business

Singapore, Sg

As a Lean LaunchPad mentor to a cohort of 18 startup companies, I guided engineering and business students through customer discovery, business model development and agile engineering conceptualization. In addition to assessing the teams throughout the program, I advised a space tech startup on robotic arm development for use in-orbit.

Claremont, Ca, Us

• Established the Office of Sponsored Research for the multidisciplinary science program at Claremont McKenna, Pitzer, and Scripps colleges• Managed a portfolio of USD $4 million+ of government funding.• Established solid working relationships with government funding agencies, managed government audits of active grants• Monitored research budgets to ensure compliance with granting agency regulations • Organized faculty workshops with funding programs to establish institutional needs and program requirements • Mentored faculty through grant-writing process, from inception and on-time submission to funds usage and compliance

Pasadena, Ca, Us

• Developed and delivered hundreds of on-time, mission-critical, instrument calibration sequences in a resource-limited, rapidly changing environment during the pre- and post-launch phases for NASA Spitzer Space Telescope. • Worked closely with university and JPL/Caltech operations teams to ensure high quality data generation for the astronomical community• Identified solar system calibration targets, led data archive development, technical reviews to maximize Spitzer's science return• Planned and produced science community workshops; addressed observer questions related to program development and data analysis; managed website development and maintenance for ESA Herschel Space Observatory• Liaisoned for extended periods in Europe to represent NASA interests on Herschel • Developed research program to study asteroids; presented results in journals and at scientific meetings

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Doctoral Dissertation: "A Qualitative Description of the Source of Jupiter's Diffuse Aurora"

Pasadena, Ca, Us

• Tested image calibration software and delivered on-time reports, pre-launch and in-orbit, for Voyager, Mars Pathfinder, Galileo, Cassini, and Terra, in coordination between software engineers and JPL's Multimission Image Processing Lab.• Developed data usage tools for US Department of Defense (cleared); supported UNIX users

Baltimore, Md, Us

• Developed testing and reporting protocol, pre- and post-launch, for NASA Hubble Space Telescope Faint Object Spectrograph • Interfaced between software engineering contractors and astronomers to ensure accuracy of calibration data and analysis tools.

Executive Masters Global Management, Space Leadership, Business & Policy

Ph.D., Space Physics, Dept Of Atmospheric Sciences

Master Of Science - Ms, Space Physics

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.) And B.A, Mechanical Engineering And Physics