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Gokhan Inalhan

Cranfield University

Gokhan Inalhan

Biography

Gokhan Inalhan received the B.Sc. degree in aeronautical engineering from Istanbul Technical University, İstanbul, Turkey, in 1997, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in aeronautics and astronautics from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, in 1998 and 2004, respectively.

After working as a Postdoctoral Associate with Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2004 to 2006, he joined the faculty at Istanbul Technical University where he served as the Director of Controls and Avionics Laboratory (2006–2016) and the Director-General of Aerospace Research Centre (2016–2019). He is currently BAE Systems Chair, a Professor of Autonomous Systems and Artificial Intelligence and the Deputy Head of Centre for Autonomous and Cyber-Physical Systems at Cranfield University. He has led and managed numerous grants and industrial projects from FP7, H2020, SESAR, EC Marie-Currie, EPSRC, Boeing, BAE Systems and major Euro-Asian aerospace, defence and aviation companies. He leads the research theme on autonomous systems and artificial intelligence within the School of Aerospace, Transport and Manufacturing at Cranfield University. He and his research group focus on design, modeling, GNC, resilience, and security aspects of autonomy and artificial intelligence for air, defense, transportation, and space systems. Current research themes include advanced flight controls and reinforcement learning for autonomous systems, human–autonomy interaction in team concept, urban air and cargo mobility, ATM/UTM, data analytics driven digital twin and surrogate modeling, explainable AI for trustworthy autonomous systems.

Dr. Inalhan and his research are recipient of awards such as IEEE AESS Exceptional Service Award, Boeing Faculty Fellowship, Council of Higher Education Outstanding Achievement and TUBITAK Innovation Success Stories. He has been serving in science, technology, and Advisory Boards of various government and commercial entities and he is a member of the general assembly of ASDA and Eurocontrol Agency Research Team. His professional service span technical committees (IEEE TCAC, AIAA GNC TC), program and editorial boards in which he has been leading themes including autonomy, intelligent systems, and transportation for IEEE CCTA, ICRAT, SESAR SID, and AIAA GNC. He is currently the Technical Editor of IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems: Autonomous Systems. He is a Life-Time Member and Associate Fellow of AIAA.

Affiliation(s)

Cranfield University

AC Member

Finn Ankersen

European Space Agency

Mohammad Ayoubi

Santa Clara Universty

United States

S. N. Balakrishnan

University of Missouri-Rolla

Mark Balas

Texas A&M University

United States

4 (Central U.S.)

Alec Bateman

Barron Associates, Inc.

Website

Randy Beard

Brigham Young University

United States

James Blight

Northrop Grumman Unmanned Systems

Justin Bradley

Nebraska Lincoln

James Buffington

Lockheed Martin

United States

Francesco Bullo

University of California, Santa Barbara

United States

Laurent Burlion

Rutgers

Website

Elisa Capello

Politecnico di Torino

Italy

Paolo Castaldi

Bologna University

Italy

Wen-Hua Chen

Loughborough University

United Kingdom

Richard Chiang

Boeing

Han-Lim Choi

KAIST

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Venanzio Cichella

University of Iowa

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K. Merve Dogan

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

United States

R. Scott Erwin

Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland

James Richard Forbes

McGill

Alessandro Freddi

Università Politecnica delle Marche

Italy

Website

Kingsley Fregene

Lockheed Martin

United States

David Fridovich-Keil

University of Texas, Austin

United States

Robert Fuentes

Raytheon Missile Systems

Roberto Galeazzi

Technical University of Denmark

Website

Mario Garcia

Public University of Navarra

Dimitry Gorinevsky

Honeywell

United States

Irene Gregory

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Fred Hadaegh

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

João Hespanha

University of California, Santa Barbara

United States

Website

Ali Heydari

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

Website

Naira Hovakimyan

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

United States

Website

Jonathan How

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

United States

1 (Northeastern U.S.)

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Jonathan How

1 (Northeastern U.S.)

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Biography

Jonathan P. How is the Richard C. Maclaurin Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received a B.A.Sc. (Aerospace) from the University of Toronto in 1987, and his S.M. and Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT in 1990 and 1993, respectively, and then studied for 1.5 years at MIT as a postdoctoral associate. Prior to joining MIT in 2000, he was an assistant professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University. Dr. How was the editor-in-chief of the IEEE Control Systems Magazine (2015-19), an associate editor for the AIAA Journal of Aerospace Information Systems (2012-21) and IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (2018-21). He was the Program Vice-chair (tutorials) for the 2021 Conference on Decision and Control and will be the Program Chair for the American Control Conference in 2025. He was elected to the Board of Governors of the IEEE Control System Society (CSS) for 2020-22, is on the IEEE CSS Long Range Planning Committee (2022 – ), is a member of the IEEE CSS Technical Committee on Aerospace Control and the Technical Committee on Intelligent Control, was a member of the IEEE Fellows Selection committee for CSS (2021-22), and since 2021, he serves as the AIAA Director on the American Automatic Control Council. He is also the Director of the Ford-MIT Alliance and was a member of the USAF Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) from 2014-17. His research focuses on robust planning and learning under uncertainty with an emphasis on multiagent systems, and he was the planning and control lead for the MIT DARPA Urban Challenge team. His work has been recognized with multiple awards, including being inducted into the University of Toronto Engineering Hall of Distinction (2022), receiving the 2020 IEEE CSS Distinguished Member Award, the 2020 AIAA Intelligent Systems Award, the 2015 AeroLion Technologies Outstanding Paper Award for Unmanned Systems, the 2015 IEEE CSS Video Clip Contest, the 2011 IFAC Automatica award for best applications paper, and the 2002 Institute of Navigation Burka Award. He also received the Air Force Commander's Public Service Award in 2017. He is a Fellow of IEEE (2018) and AIAA (2016) and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2021.

Affiliation(s)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

United States

Richard A. Hull

Collins Aerospace

United States

Suresh Joshi

NASA Langley Research Center

United States

Sungwan Kim

NASA Langley

Andrea L'Afflitto

Georgia Institute of Technology

Jesse Leitner

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Guoxin Li

Transient & Dynamics, GE Aviation

Richard Ling

Honeywell

Arnab Maity

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

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Martina Mammarella

IEIIT-CNR

Italy

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Amor Menezes

University of Florida

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Marco Nicotra

University of Colorado, Boulder

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Mike Oppenheimer

Air Force Research Laboratory (Wright-Patterson)

Radhakant Padhi

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

India

Radhakant Padhi

Biography

Prof. Radhakant Padhi earned his Masters in Aerospace Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1996, followed by his Ph.D. from Missouri University of Science and Technology (MST) – Rolla, USA, in 2001. After two years of postdoctoral studies, he joined the Dept. of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore as a faculty member in December 2003, where currently he a full professor. He has briefly served the Defence Research and Development Organisation of India as a scientist during 1996-1997.

Prof. Padhi’s research interests are in the broad area of systems theory and applications, with emphasis on synthesis algorithms in optimal control, nonlinear control, intelligent control and state estimation. He works on diverse application areas such as guidance and control of aerospace vehicles, target tracking for guidance, integrated guidance control and estimation, automatic drug delivery for biomedical systems, control of distributed parameter systems and industrial process control. He has more than 240 publications in international journals and conferences, three of which have been cited more than 100 times. Two of his books (one on Satellite Formation Flying and one on Applied Optimal Control and State Estimation) are going to be published soon by Springer and Wiley respectively. The nonlinear and optimal guidance and control algorithms developed by him are of wide applicability across various disciplines and have been accepted well across the globe.

Prof. Padhi is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineers (INAE), a Fellow of the Institution of Electronics and Communication Engineers (IETE), a Fellow of the Institute of Engineers (India), an Associate Fellow of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), a Senior Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a member of the Council of International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC). He is a Technical Committee member of Aerospace Control in both IEEE and IFAC. He is a life member of the Aeronautical Society of India, Systems Society of India and Soft Computing Research Society of India. He is a steering committee member of the Asian Control Association as well, representing India. He has received several awards for his valuable research contributions as well, the most recent being the Excellence in Aerospace Education award from the Aeronautical Society of India. He is currently an associate editor of three journals, namely IFAC Mechatronics, Unmanned Systems, and Intl. J. of Aeronautical & Space Sciences. He has executed over 25 industry-sponsored research projects and delivered several keynote and plenary talks in various conferences.

Affiliation(s)

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

India

Derek Paley

University of Maryland

United States

Dimitra Panagou

University of Michigan

United States

Sean Phillips

Air Force Research Laboratory

United States

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Clinton Plaisted

a.i. solutions, Inc.

Zhihua Qu

Professor

University of Central Florida

United States

Camille Alain Rabbath

Defense Research and Development Canada

Canada

Brett Ridgely

Raytheon Missile Systems

Lawrence Robertson

Air Force Research Laboratory (Kirtland)

Sikandar Samar

Siemens Corporate Research, Inc.

Amit Sanyal

Syracuse University

United States

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Peter J. Seiler

University of Michigan

United States

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Carlos Silvestre

Instituto Superior Tecnico

Matthew Sorgenfrei

University of California, Davis

Margareta Stefanovic

University of Denver

Website

Srikant Sukumar

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Website

Vassilios Tsachouridis

Collins Aerospace

Ireland

Antonios Tsourdos

Cranfield University

United Kingdom

Ercument Turkoglu

University of Tarsus

Turkey

Kamran Turkoglu

American Public University

United States

Vasileios Tzoumas

University of Michigan

United States

Rafael Vazquez

Universidad de Sevilla

Spain

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John Wagner

Clemson University

Kevin Wise

Boeing Phantom Works

United States

Tansel Yucelen

University of South Florida

United States

Tansel Yucelen

Biography

Dr. Tansel Yucelen is an Assistant Professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, the Director of the LACIS, and the Director of the Forum on Robotics and Control Engineering (FoRCE) at the University of South Florida. He received the Doctor of Philosophy in Aerospace Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in May 2012. Prior to joining the University of South Florida, he held Research Engineer positions in the School of Aerospace Engineering and the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology from December 2011 to August 2013. He also held an Assistant Professor position in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the Missouri University of Science and Technology from August 2013 to August 2016, where he created and directed the Advanced Systems Research Laboratory and the Control Systems Forum. He participated in summer programs at the Air Force Research Laboratory Aerospace System Directorate in Dayton, Ohio, from May 2014 to July 2014 and at the Munitions Directorate in Eglin, Florida from May 2015 to July 2015.

Dr. Yucelen is a member of the National Academy of Inventors in recognition of advanced technological development and innovation and a senior member of the AIAA and the IEEE. In addition, he is the recipient of the 2018 University of South Florida Research and Innovation Faculty Outstanding Research Achievement Award, 2017 University of South Florida College of Engineering Junior Outstanding Research Achievement Award, 2016 ACGSC Dave Ward Memorial Lecture Award (for the outstanding contributions to the field of adaptive control), 2016 AIAA Technical Contribution Award (for the creation of novel flight control synthesis and analysis algorithms), 2015 Oak Ridge Associated Universities Junior Faculty Award (for public recognition of the quality and promise of research), and 2014 Class of 1942 Excellence in Teaching Award. His research places a strong emphasis on both theoretic research and experimentation for addressing fundamental and open real-world technological problems. Specifically, his research falls into dynamical systems and controls with specializations in 1) adaptive and robust control of safety-critical systems; 2) distributed estimation and control of networked multiagent systems; 3) resilient and secure robotics, autonomous vehicles, and cyber-physical systems; and 4) biologically-inspired complex, large-scale, and modular systems. He has co-authored more than 200 archival journal and conference publications in these areas and his contributions were implemented on various platforms including AirSTAR of the NASA Langley Research Center.

Dr. Yucelen is an active member of the AIAA, ASME, and IEEE societies as well as AIAA Technical Committee (TC) on Guidance, Navigation, and Control (invited by Dave Doman and Susan Frost), AIAA TC on Intelligent Systems (invited by Nhan Nguyen), IEEE TC on Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning (invited by Silvia Ferrari), IEEE TC on Aerospace Control (invited by Kingsley Fregene), IEEE TC on Control Education, IEEE TC on Intelligent Control (invited by Jagannathan Sarangapani), IEEE TC on System Identification and Adaptive Control, and IFAC TC on Adaptive and Learning Systems (invited by Fouad Giri). He is also the creator of the Guidance, Navigation, and Control Listserv - a communication tool for researchers and educators in the Guidance, Navigation, and Control field. Dr. Yucelen's additional professional experiences include the organization of 2 local workshops at the University of South Florida; 5 workshops and 4 invited sessions at the top scientific and engineering conferences on dynamical systems and controls; and various associate editor, conference program committee, conference technical area chair, conference session chair, and reviewer roles.

Affiliation(s)

University of South Florida

United States