Ajay Kothari

Dr. Ajay Kothari is a Rocket Scientist and President/CEO of Astrox Corporation which he founded in Washington DC area. His PhD and MS in Aerospace Engineering are from University of Maryland. He was born in India and has lived in US for 45+ years with 30+ years as US citizen. He has over 45 professional publications and also was awarded National Merit Scholarship in India. He has been invited to speak on aerospace subjects by many entities, interviewed on television shows and his articles on space related topics have been published by various newspapers ().

He is also the first Indian-American member of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) for Washington-Baltimore region, having acted in a few TV shows as a hobby in US like “Law and Order”, “The Wire”, and others for NBC, HBO and other Hollywood and independent film productions. He is also an artist having studied art as a major in high school. His work comprises of abstracts and impressionists in both oil and acrylic.

• Semi-professional artist (actor and painter)
• Rocket Scientist designing rockets and hypersonic planes
• Professional member of Screen Actors’ Guild for last 25 years
• Majored in painting in high school and have been painting for last 30 years

• Showing at The Watergate Gallery, Washington DC in May-Aug 2020.
• Showing at The Watergate Gallery, Washington DC in July 2018. Painting ANGST sold for $1800.
• College Park Art Show, April 2018
• Painting (ANGST) selected for exhibition at International Art Gallery, Baltimore-Washington Airport, by the First Lady of Maryland, June-September 2017
• College Park Art Show, April 2017