About us

Director

Pranay Seshadri

Hendon is led by Pranay Seshadri, who works at the intersection of aerospace engineering, probabilistic machine learning, and uncertainty quantification. Previously an Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering & Machine Learning at Georgia Tech, his work turns experimental and sensor data into calibrated, decision-grade predictions — spanning aerodynamics and turbomachinery, data-driven dimension reduction, and Gaussian-process methods. Hendon is where that research becomes a product.

The name

Hendon was one of the birthplaces of British aviation. From 1910, the aerodrome in north London became a proving ground for early flight — pioneering aviators, record attempts, the great Hendon air displays, and decades of Royal Air Force history that live on today at the RAF Museum. It was a place where flying machines were tested, measured, and understood. We took the name because that is still the work: turning measurement into understanding.

“Flying at Hendon”, Tony Sarg, 1914 · London Transport Museum collection

RAF Hendon aerodrome, c.1941 · Imperial War Museums (HU 93052), public domain