Profile
Hitesh Boghani
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About Me:
I’m dad to two young kids who love going to school! I do mathematical models and simulations at work. I love walking, cycling and making fun projects using useful parts from waste electronics/electrical items.
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My pronouns are:
He/him/his
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How I use Maths in my work:
I use calculus, matrix algebra and complex numbers to represent physical systems in an abstract form. This captures their behaviour rather than their actual physical form.
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My Work:
Modelling and simulation for control system design.
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My Typical Day:
I wake up, freshen up and have breakfast. Then I make kids lunches and get their school dresses ready. I wake them up, get them ready, and drop them off to school after their breakfast and set off to work. I come back from work in the evening, have dinner, play with my kids, help them with their homework, read them bedtime story and we all go to bed afterwards. 🙂 I work from home some days and work in the office the other days.
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What I'd do with the prize money:
I would set up an electronics hobby library for young children where they can build their own robots, program them and do some cool experiments!
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Education:
I went to a school called Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya in India.
Then I came to UK in 2005 to do Aerospace Engineering degree which then I switched to Mechanical Engineering.
I worked as a placement student during my undergrad degree, known as sandwich placement before finishing my degree.
After finishing my BEng (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering, I did a PhD.
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Qualifications:
BEng (Hons) Mechanical Engineering with sandwich placement.
PhD in Systems Approaches to Enhance Performance and Applicability of Microbial Fuel Cells.
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Work History:
2005 – 2010. I worked as a crew member and then later shift manager in McDonalds restaurent. This taught me how processes are important and taught me management, equally important even when organising an experiment!
2010 – 2014. During my PhD, I did teaching assistant jobs to help lecturers deliver their courses to undergraduate students.
2015 – 2021. I worked as a researchers in multiple universities.
2021 – 2022. I went to develop control system for a manufaturing machine that built aerospace and automobile parts. This was in a start up company.
2022 – 2024. I worked as a control systems engineer developing and programming autonomous flight control systems for UAVs.
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Current Job:
I currently work as a power modelling engineer.
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Employer:
Esco Maritime Solutions Ltd
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My Interview
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What did you want to be after you left school?
Aerospace engineer
Were you ever in trouble at school?
Sometimes
If you weren't doing this job, what would you choose instead?
Physicist
Who is your favourite singer or band?
My daughter
What's your favourite food?
Ringna No Olo (It's in Gujarati, look it up! ;) )
If you had 3 wishes for yourself what would they be? - be honest!
Unlimited time at school, visit international space station, learn to be a pilot
Tell us a joke.
Who has the key to banana? Ans. Monkey ( :D )
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