The Aerospace Corporation is honored to nominate Dhruv Bohra, Senior Member of the Technical Staff, for the Society of Asian Scientist and Engineers (SASE) Promising Professional Award. While only at the beginning of what will surely be a highly accomplished career, Dhruv has already demonstrated deep technical acumen, leadership, and visionary qualities that far exceeds what one would expect from someone with his experience level. These qualities, among others, make Mr. Bohra a strong candidate for this award.

Mr. Bohra has set himself apart from his peers through his contributions in varying embedded applications for the satellite enterprise. He is a subject matter expert across technology areas that include edge compute, distributed compute, and DevSecOps. This includes his innovative and impactful work related to on-board reconfigurable computing. This future capability is a critical component for the U.S. to be able to rapidly update space assets to meet the ever-increasing threats we face in space. Mr. Bohra has led and continues to lead several efforts in this critical solution space, including numerous iterative capability demonstrations. Mr. Bohra has leveraged these positive results to successfully evangelize the importance of the technology, to educate the community, to obtain buy in to the needed paradigm shift, and to obtain funding to further the research.

The value and importance of relationships has not been lost on Dhruv. He brings intentionality to the building of his network within The Aerospace Corporation, sister FFRDCs, and the broader space community. Mr. Bohra has demonstrated an effectiveness in the utilization of this network through collaboration, information sharing, and technical growth. An example that demonstrates this is Mr. Bohra’s recent work to develop the Aerospace Advanced Microelectronics Interest-Integration Recommendation Assessment Framework (AMIRA). AMIRA was designed with feedback and input from FFRDC peer organizations, to help focus research aimed at advanced microelectronics to endeavors that yield the biggest return and impact. Adjacent groups within The Aerospace Corporation have recognized its value and are actively working with Mr. Bohra to further extend its use.

Dhruv’s capabilities are not restricted to only innovative solutions but extend to his ability and genuine desire to coach those around him. He is an active participant in the mentoring of Aerospace’s interns and junior engineers. He demonstrates the ability to communicate the vision, relevance, and technical value of an effort in a way that brings clarity and excitement for the work performed by junior staff allowing them to understand the impact and connection to the larger mission. These critical skills, coupled with his ability to enable those he is coaching to grow technically allows him to simultaneously grow the next generation of engineering talent while achieving enterprise mission success. As a growing and evolving leader, Mr. Bohra stands well above his peers and we look forward to his continued growth and future contributions as a leader and technical expert.

Mr. Bohra is a prime example of what the Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers seeks to recognize. The complimentary blending of his technical acumen, leadership, innovative and visionary skills and his character are the reasons The Aerospace Corporation enthusiastically nominates him for the SASE Promising Professional Award.