Saswati Das is a third-year doctoral student in Electrical Engineering. Her area of research is Electromagnetics and she works for Space @ Virginia Tech (Center for Space Science and Engineering Research). She has been working on NASA missions in collaboration with Jet Propulsion Laboratory on the GLO (Gas Filter Correlation Radiometry- Limb Occultation) instrument to be flown on the SOCRATES mission and also on the Polar NOx Rocket Mission that aims at understanding the vertical profile of Nitric Oxide and its downward transport during the polar night. She holds a Bachelor of Technology Degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, India. She enthusiastically advocates the inclusion of women in Space and Rocket Science.