Swathi Mohan
| NAME | Swathi Mohan |  |
| Nationality | Indian American | |
| Known for | Work on the Mars 2020 mission Scientific career | |
| Thesis | Quantitative Selection and Design of Model, Generation Architectures for On-Orbit Autonomous Assembly |
| NAME | Swathi Mohan | |
| Nationality | Indian American | |
| Known for | Work on the Mars 2020 mission Scientific career | |
| Thesis | Quantitative Selection and Design of Model, Generation Architectures for On-Orbit Autonomous Assembly |
Mohan was born in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, and emigrated to the United States when she was one year old.
She studied Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University, before completing her master's degree and Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
She researched on-orbit operations in the Space Systems Laboratory (MIT) with Professor Dave Miller. She worked with the Synchronized Position Hold Engage and Reorient Experimental Satellite (SPHERES),SWARM, and ALMOST testbeds. With SPHERES, she had multiple tests performed on the International Space Station (ISS), including some by fellow MIT alumni astronauts Dan Tani and Greg Chamitoff.She also worked on the SPHERES Zero Robotics competition for middle and high school students.
At MIT, she was involved in the Graduate Student Council, Sidney-Pacific Residence Hall (including Sidney-Pacific Intercultural Exchange (SPICE)), and Graduate Association of Aeronautics and Astronautics (GA^3) student organizations.
Mohan works at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and is the Guidance & Controls Operations Lead for the Mars 2020 mission.