Sheena Rani, a 57-year-old scientist at the Advanced Systems Laboratory of the DRDO in Hyderabad, led the team that was behind India's first flight test of Agni-5 missile. Sheena, who previously worked at ISRO's Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, joined DRDO as a lateral entry in 1999 after the Pokhran-II nuclear tests. Sheena did her engineering from College of Engineering Trivandrum.