Mr. Balachandran received his B.Sc. from University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka in 2013, and M.Sc. degree from Wichita State University, Wichita, KS in 2017. He is currently in his final year of Ph.D. studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign focusing on high power density electric machines for aviation. He is leading the efforts on designing a high-efficiency motor for the Center for high-Efficiency Electrical Technologies for Aircraft (CHEETA) funded by NASA. His research includes lowering the risks in fully superconducting machines for aviation and wind turbine application. His research interest includes modeling ac losses in fully superconducting machines and performing multi-physics optimization to reach better machine performances. He also leads a 10-MW fully superconducting wind turbine study funded by NSF at UIUC. He also works as a Principal Electrical Engineer at Hinetics, focusing on overseeing prototyping efforts and electromagnetic design of MW scale motors. Mr. Balachandran was responsible for prototyping efforts on the UIUC-NASA 1-MW motor including winding qualification and stator assembly/qualification.