Bhavya Mathur

About Bhavya Mathur

I was 11 years old at feet when the ground disappeared and I realized I wanted to build the machines that fly, not just ride in them.From my terrace, I\'d stared up for years wondering what was up there. On that flight, at that altitude, the sky stopped being blue and became infinite. Planes descending below looked like falling stars. I felt like I had superpowers. But here\'s what nobody tells you: building those machines means failing 20+ times in your first semester alone. It means sleeping on bubble wrap beside a half-finished electric ATV at 3 a.m, covered in CAD blueprints and doubt, convinced you\'re either brilliant or completely delusional.I chose to keep going.Team GarVIT taught me that the magic isn\'t in the trophy—it\'s in the moment when your design actually works. When CAE validation confirms what your gut told you was possible. We reduced deformation by 25%, achieved 29.6° gradeability, and placed AIR 44 in eBAJA 2023. But that ranking didn\'t matter. What mattered was knowing I\'d evolved from that kid asking \"what\'s it like up there?\" to the engineer actually building it.Then came the Möbius strip turbine blade. My professor said undergraduates \"don\'t do this level of research.\" I ignored him. Two years of collapsing simulations, pressure contours that looked like abstract art, code that apparently only demons understood. When results failed, I\'d joke to my teammates:\"The bird is one foot confused about direction.\" We kept going anyway.By year two, it worked. 13.2% higher pressure recovery. 2.8% higher isentropic efficiency. Standing at ICSATI 2025, presenting to the president of Rolls-Royce India, I felt that 11-year-old staring down from feet—except now I understood the physics.The rush isn\'t about speed. It\'s about turning impossible into inevitable. I\'m obsessed with that journey: from zero to something that moves.If you\'re building something that matters in aerospace, let\'s talk.

Experience

1. Mechanical Engineering Intern

   Vecros

   Jan 2026 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

Education

• Central Academy Schools

  High School Diploma

• Vellore Institute of Technology

  Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering

• Henry Harvin Education

  Japanese Language and Literature