Academic Credentials
  • Ph.D., Engineering Science, University of Oxford, UK, 2022
Academic Appointments
  • Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, 2018 - 2020
Professional Honors
  • Best Student Paper Award, 2nd International Conference on High-Speed Vehicle Science and Technology, 2022
  • The Institution of Engineering and Technology Diamond Jubilee Scholarship, 2013
Professional Affiliations
  • Associate Member of the Royal Aeronautical Society (AMRAeS) – 2023-present
  • Member, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics – 2018-present

Dr. Naved specializes in aerospace, mechanical, and thermal engineering. He has extensive experience in experimentally characterizing thermal systems, high-fidelity computational modeling with a focus on high-speed flows, and heat exchanger design.

He holds both a Ph.D. and an MEng in Engineering Science from the University of Oxford. His graduate research focused on the development of reusable thermal protection systems for hypersonic vehicles. His work combined both experimental and numerical methodologies for rapidly evaluating thermal protection for aerospace vehicles. He has conducted detailed experiments exploring the heat transfer on transpiration cooled surfaces in hypersonic flow at the University of Oxford Hypersonic wind tunnels. He has setup high-speed data acquisition systems with fast response thin film gauges and thermocouples to obtain highly resolved measurements of heat flux on a hypersonic vehicle. Additionally, he designed and commissioned a novel high-speed infrared system for these investigations.

Prior to joining Exponent, Dr. Naved worked as an Aerothermal Engineer at Reaction Engines Ltd., where he led experimental and numerical work packages for a Ministry of Defence-funded hypersonic vehicle project. He designed and oversaw experiments related to the vehicle's intake and precooler systems. Dr. Naved also worked as a computational physicist at Fluid Gravity Engineering, where he conducted numerical simulations to model satellite reentry scenarios.