Community Member Spotlight: Rohan Sohani
Meet Rohan Sohani, a third-year Aerospace Engineering student at Georgia Tech. He is also a Tech Square ATL (TSQATL) Social Club member and a recent panelist for the TSQATL Space Soirée last month. Outside of academia, he enjoys playing golf and has even recently picked up cooking during quarantine.
Rohan at Yosemite National Park, right before COVID started.
As part of our Community Member Spotlight series, we caught up with Rohan about any new projects he’s working on, his favorite restaurant in the neighborhood, and what TSQATL means to him.
Q: What’s one new/interesting project you're working on right now?
A: Unfortunately, my side projects have taken a pause due to school, but I was working on developing algorithms to better correlate exercise data as athletes workout to their performance and agility.
Rohan and other interns he worked with during his internship at NASA. Here, they were testing out different methods and applications of apparel designed to track vitals of the human body.
Q: What's your favorite food or beverage place in Midtown?
A: Bellina Alimentari in Ponce City Market is really good!
Rohan with current ISS commander and former Navy Seal, Chris Cassidy.
Q: What's one thing you would tell people about Tech Square ATL Social Club?
A: Tech Square ATL Social Club, to me, represents a pivotal part of the Tech Square community. It serves as a magnet to attract forward-thinking individuals to come collaborate and share ideas through a meaningful avenue!
Rohan in a mock-up of a Mars rover that could be used to train people on Earth to pilot the rover before heading to Mars.
DID YOU KNOW?
Chris Cassidy was the 500th person in history to fly into space.
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