Old Dominion University

Joshit
Mohanty

Ph.D. Candidate · Modeling & Simulation

I build simulations of systems that misbehave. Agent-based models, digital twins, and applied AI for wherever individual decisions aggregate into system-wide dysfunction.

Fleet OperationsMatching MarketsHealthcareFinanceSupply ChainsManufacturingSpace Systems

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Norfolk, VA · US work authorization · F1 OPT/STEM

$0K+

Federal research funding contributed to

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Simulation scenarios run on AWS HPC

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Manual triage time removed, US Navy work orders

Google Scholar citations, h-index 5

Education and research

Research collaboration, Dept. of AeroAstro

M.S. · President's Award

Ph.D. Candidate · EMSE

Built for & funded by

US Department of Defense

US Navy

National Science Foundation

CACI

Senate of Virginia

Worked at & launched with

German Orbital Systems

SpaceX

UN Space Generation Advisory Council

IIT Madras

IIT Roorkee

University of Texas at Arlington

Recognised by

NASA

Micron Technology

Dassault Systèmes

MassChallenge

IEEE

INFORMS

Trajectory

Where the work happened.

Ph.D. Candidate, Engineering Management & Systems Engineering

Old Dominion University

2026–Present · Norfolk, VA

Complex systems, simulation, and organizational modeling.
Advisor: Dr. Andrew J. Collins.

Senior Research Engineer, Digital Twins

PlaSiV

May 2026–Aug 2026 · San Jose, CA

Stealth mode, company confidential

Research Scientist, Modeling & Simulation

Old Dominion University

Jan 2026–May 2026 · Norfolk, VA

Agent-based simulation, 300M+ scenarios on AWS HPC.
US medical residency matching market, 42,000+ applicants. NSF EAGER Grant #2333570 ($198,534).
7,000+ algorithm generations testing agent behavior evolution.

Technical Program Lead, Fleet Analytics

ODU Research Foundation · US Department of Defense

Sep 2023–Dec 2024 · Norfolk, VA

$496K across 3 concurrent programs as Co-PI.
NLP pipeline: 160,000+ records, 92% accuracy, 87% time reduction. In production.
Proposals securing $350K+ in federal funding.

Strategy Lead

Earth In Motion · Senate of Virginia, Senator Bill DeSteph

Apr 2023–Aug 2023 · Virginia Beach, VA

Zero to $98K revenue in 8 weeks, 5+ clients.
Carbon tracking simulation under Verra VCS 4.7 and UN SDG standards.
Improved workforce compliance 25%, ESG reporting efficiency 19%.

Program Director

AATWRI Group

Feb 2022–Mar 2023 · Chennai, India

$100K product launch, 12-person team, 18% ahead of schedule.

Systems Engineer

German Orbital Systems

Jun 2019–Aug 2019 · Berlin, Germany

Designed and prototyped CubeSat using shape memory alloy technology.
Launched aboard SpaceX Falcon Heavy to low-Earth orbit. Still operational.

Interactive

How application fever
spreads.

Every year roughly 48,000 US medical graduates compete for residency posts through a single centralised match. Nobody can see how much competition they face, so applicants copy the strategy of whoever outranks them and send more and more applications, until the volume overwhelms the people reading them.

LIVE NRMP application-fever model · prestige-biased transmission, two-stage match

Low score Medium High score

Population 400 agents

Positions per applicant 0.80 P/N

Reapplication rate 0.60

0YEAR

10.0MEAN APPS

0%FEVER RATE

+0%ESCALATION

Reading it. Each figure is an applicant, coloured by how many applications they send; amber and red are the fever zone. The pool takes two inputs each year: a new cohort who arrive with no habits, and carriers, applicants who went unmatched and return sending one level more. Matched applicants leave. The dashed edge is that carrier loop, and it thickens as the behaviour spreads.

Why it generalises. The mechanism needs only three things: participants who cannot see real demand, competition for scarce slots, and someone ahead of them to imitate. That describes far more than medicine — graduate admissions, job markets, sellers bidding for placement on Amazon or eBay, and order flow in equities, where traders read each other rather than the underlying value. Ported from the NetLogo source: 52 interaction cycles a year, two-stage match.

Selected work

Systems that shipped.
And the models behind them.

Joshit Mohanty with Uri Wilensky, creator of NetLogo, beside the application-fever poster at the NetLogo Conference 2026 — Taking the work to the room.

With Uri Wilensky, creator of NetLogo, at the first NetLogo Conference, Chicago 2026.

Dissertation

Dual-Perspective Measurement for Agent-Based Models

Testing the Adequacy of the Single-Perspective Measurement Convention

Dissertation proposal · August 2026

Agent-based models are almost always measured from the population perspective alone. That convention assumes one perspective is enough to describe a final state. The assumption is untested.

RESEARCH QUESTION 1

Can disagreement between the independently measured agent perspective and population perspective be detected at the final state of a simulation?

RESEARCH QUESTION 2

Which parameters most strongly influence the probability that the two perspectives disagree?

Method

Axelrod (1997) cultural dissemination model as testbed. Full factorial design across a toroidal lattice and a scale-free network. No new model and no changed rules, so any disagreement belongs to the measurements rather than the model.

Committee

Dr. Andrew J. Collins ↗ Director

Dr. Ambrosio Valencia-Romero ↗ Member

Dr. James F. Leathrum ↗ Member

Capabilities

Modeling & Simulation

Agent-based modeling

Discrete event simulation

System dynamics

Monte Carlo

Model V&V

AI Governance & Compliance

Self-governing agent architectures

NIST AI RMF

Explainable & trustworthy AI

Responsible conduct of research

Authoritative Source of Truth

Digital Twin & Architecture

Process-Oriented Digital Thread

Macro-micro service bridging

Predictive maintenance

System-of-systems design

NLP & Applied AI

Text classification

RAG architectures

LLM integration

Hallucination mitigation

Sentiment analysis

Space Systems

CubeSat & SmallSat design

Mission & constellation architecture

Interplanetary communication

Space logistics

Attitude control & thermal systems

Program Leadership

Federal grant acquisition

Multi-stakeholder delivery

Proposal to production

P&L ownership

Mechanical Modeling & Simulation

CAD & SolidWorks (CSWA)

Finite element analysis

Mechatronics & control

Composites & smart materials

Prototype to production

Publications

32 papers.
Complex Systems Engineering.

2026

An Agent-Based Model of Application Fever Dynamics in the National Resident Matching Program

J. Mohanty, A. J. Collins · Winter Simulation Conference, Glasgow, UK

Accepted

2026

Detecting the Silo Trap in Multi-Agent Systems: A NetLogo Framework for Measuring Perspective Divergence

J. Mohanty, A. J. Collins · NetLogo Conference, Chicago, USA

Presented

2026

Application Fever as Emergent Behavior: An Agent-Based Model of Medical Residency Matching

J. Mohanty, A. J. Collins · NetLogo Conference, Chicago, USA

Presented

2026

A vs. I in AI: Is there a Threshold to "Engineered" Intelligence?

J. Mohanty · 59th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Hawaii, USA

doi:10.24251/HICSS.2026.143

Published

2026

From PBFT to Blockchain: A Comprehensive Survey of Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Consensus

A. V. Hazarika, J. Mohanty · 8th International Conference on Intelligent Sustainable Systems (ICISS), India

doi:10.1109/ICISS67859.2026.11453852

2 cited Published

2025

A Meta-Clustering Framework for Enhancing Conversational AI in the Healthcare Sector

J. Mohanty, S. K. Nayak, Vaishali, S. Alla, M. Shah, A. V. Hazarika · 20th Annual System of Systems Engineering Conference (SoSE), Tirana, Albania

doi:10.1109/SoSE66311.2025.11083870

3 cited Published

2025

Bridging Emotions and Architecture: Sentiment Analysis in Modern Distributed Systems

M. Shah, A. V. Hazarika, M. Malhotra, S. C. Patil, J. Mohanty · International Conference on Advancements in Smart, Secure and Systems (ASSIC), India

doi:10.1109/ASSIC64892.2025.11158682

6 cited Published

2025

Digital Twin for Smart Societies: A Catalyst for Inclusive and Accessible Healthcare

J. Mohanty, S. Alla, Vaishali, N. Bheesetty, P. Chidipudi, S. P. C. Nandigam · 6th International Conference on AI and Applied Mathematics in Engineering, Warsaw, Poland

doi:10.36227/techrxiv.173921138.87440719/v1

3 cited Published

Google Scholar ↗ ORCID ↗ ODU Digital Commons ↗ 70+ citations, h-index 5

The record

Ph.D., Systems Engineering

Old Dominion University · In progress. Complex systems, simulation, organizational modeling.

Advisor: Dr. Andrew J. Collins

M.S., Space and Engineering Systems

Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology · President's Award, Top 3%. Research collaboration with MIT, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Thesis: logistics architecture for the first crewed mission to Mars.

Advisor: Dr. Anton Ivanov · 2020

B.Tech, Mechanical Engineering

Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology · Thesis: Active Wireless Monitoring of Railway Tracks.

Advisor: Mr. J. B. Lakra · 2018