Abhay co-leads the HDD reaction wheel project and has tested the HDD reaction wheels in a CubeSat prototype on four Zero-G flights. He has also worked on a payload that will test the HDD reaction wheel in space onboard a NASA JSC CubeSat. From the HDD projects, Abhay has gained skills in system design and testing, experiment design and operations, computer vision, Kalman filtering, controls, and electrical engineering. 

Abhay received his B.S. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UC Davis in June 2020 and is now working towards his M.S. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He has three years of experience developing UC Davis' first undergraduate-built CubeSat as a member of Space and Satellite Systems and has co-led the development of the low-cost attitude determination and control system. In 2019, he interned as a fluids test engineer at NASA Kennedy Space Center for the Restore-L mission (now OSAM-1). In 2020, he interned as an aerospace engineer working on orbital trajectory optimization at Momentus Space. In 2022, he interned as an Attitude Control Systems Engineer at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and worked on the PACE mission and two CubeSats missions.

Abhay enjoys combining theory and application in both hardware and software. In his free time, Abhay likes to cook, play basketball, and read.