Avani Gupta is from India. She was born in Uttar Pradesh and spent her childhood in Andhra Pradesh. Ever since she was a little girl, Avani took a zealous interest in anything related to airplanes and wanted to be an aerospace engineer when she grew up. She graduated high school from Delhi Public School, R. K. Puram, New Delhi in 2013 and started as an undergraduate aerospace engineering student at Georgia Tech in the fall of 2013. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering in December 2016 and her Master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering in August 2019. During her time as a graduate student, she interned in France within the Modeling and Simulation Department of Safran, Paris-Saclay and worked on the computational simulation of turbomachinery components, specifically axial compressors. She continued her research on the computational modeling of ice accretion, under the guidance of Dr. Lakshmi N. Sankar at Georgia Tech in collaboration with the US Army and NASA Glenn, for her doctoral studies and received her Doctorate in Aerospace Engineering in December 2021. She currently works as an aerodynamics engineer at the Turbomachinery Department at Linde Inc. in Tonawanda, NY.