Dr. Neelakshi Majumdar is an Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Arkansas and an affiliate faculty member of the Arkansas Center for Space and Planetary Sciences. She leads the ASYST Lab (Aerospace Systems Engineering and Transportation). Dr. Majumdar's research focuses to develop new strategies and tools to make aerospace, systems, and transportation safer by leveraging concepts from aerospace systems engineering, data analysis, machine learning, and human factors.

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Dr. Majumdar received her M.S. and Ph.D. in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from Purdue University with a focus on Aerospace Systems and Safety. Her doctoral work focused on inflight loss of control causation analysis in general aviation using systems modeling, natural language processing, and human factors approach. This work was supported by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to improve pilot training practices. She is an FAA Safety Team Representative, Senior Research Advisor and U.S. Liaison at the Advanced Air Mobility Institute, and a member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and the General Aviation Technical Committee. Dr. Majumdar is also a licensed private pilot and has flown Cessna 172 and Piper Warrior for over 170 hours.​