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My name is Sriram Rallabhandi
I am the co-technical lead for the prediction and validation of tools for the Quesst mission my role
is to engineer methods to be able to predict the sonic booms as well as try to reduce it to levels
that are more acceptable to people on the ground I was born in India my parents still lived there
I travel to India once a year and it would make a big impact if we could fly supersonic and cut
the time of travel by half I was interested in math from childhood as I was growing up I always
wanted to become an engineer it was always a dream to work for NASA during the pandemic one way to
bond with my kids was through Rubik's Cubes as we figured it was something that we could do together
I also love teaching my kids everything starts with my kids so I try to teach anything by example
so math by example take a problem and try to record myself using couple of strategies in an
easy to understand fashion one thing I love to do is get out and play sports another way for
bonding with my kids is to pick up something that they can play which is why I play pickleball with
them when the weather is good outside I am glad that I am on a team of great talented folks who
are extremely motivated and willing to contribute in whatever way possible to make this a success
when I see the X-59 fly for the first time I'd be extremely happy and it's a flood of emotions that
will come so it will be something of an amazement and I'm eagerly looking forward to seeing that