John Valasek

Biography

John Valasek is Director, Vehicle Systems & Control Laboratory, Thaman Professor of Undergraduate Teaching Excellence, Professor of Aerospace Engineering, and member of the Honors Faculty at Texas A&M University (TAMU). He has been actively conducting autonomy and flight controls research of manned and unmanned air vehicles in both industry and academia for 35 years. John was previously a Flight Control Engineer for the Northrop Corporation, Aircraft Division in the Flight Controls Research Group, and on the AGM-137 Tri-Services Standoff Attack Missile (TSSAM) program. At TAMU since 1997, John holds two patents and is an author/co-author of four books, including Nonlinear Multiple Time Scale Systems in Standard and Non-Standard Forms: Analysis and Control (SIAM 2014). John is a Fellow of AIAA, Senior Member of IEEE, Chair of the AIAA Intelligent Systems Technical Committee, and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics. John earned the B.S. degree in Aerospace Engineering from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, and the M.S. and Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Kansas.