Prof. Rajkumar S. Pant has all his three degrees (Bachelors, Masters and PhD) in Aerospace engineering. He has been a member of faculty of Aerospace Engineering Department at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay since December 1989, and carries out teaching & research in the area of Aircraft Conceptual Design, Optimization and Air Transportation. Currently, he is spearheading a national initiative to develop indigenous capability in design and development of ‘Lighter Than Air' (LTA) Vehicles.

As part of his doctoral research at College of Aeronautics Cranfield University, UK, he carried out case studies on short-haul business travel in India. His current areas of research in air transportation include airline network optimization, modeling and simulation of ATM Systems to determine capacity bottlenecks at airport and airspace, and methodologies for assessment and mitigation of ATC workload. He was a visiting academic at Imperial College London during the summer of 2006, to propose some joint studies related to mathematical modeling and simulation of airspace, leading to the development of a generic framework for the estimation of Air Traffic Capacity and Delay in Indian and UK Airspace. He has conducted many courses on Air Transportation under the continuing education program of IIT Bombay.

He has published and presented around 40 scientific papers in international and national journals and conferences. He is a member of The Aeronautical Society of India, Indian Society of Technical Education, The Royal Aeronautical Society, and The Airship Association. He has recently been elected as an international member of the Lighter-Than-Air Technical Committee of American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics.