Leadership
Hannah Thach
Executive Director
Scott Bowins
Deputy Director of Strategic Partnerships
Kyle Ryker
Associate Director, Research
BJ McClenton
Associate Director, ASSUREd Safe
Whitley Alford
Financial Manager
Core Universities
Bryan Farrell
Interim Director,
Raspet Flight Research Laboratory at Mississippi State University
Kurtulus Izzetoglu
Associate Professor, School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems
Steven Weber
Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering
Richard Stansbury
Associate Professor, Computer Engineering and Computer Science Department of Electrical, Computer, Software, and Systems Engineering
Kurt Carraway
Acting UAS Program Manager,
Applied Aviation Research Center
Douglas S. Cairns
Lsysle A. Wood Distinguished Professor
Henry M. Cathey, Jr.
Physical Science Laboratory Aerospace Division Director
Ali Karimoddini
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Daniel Findley
Associate Director, Education and Training
Director, Economics and Policy Assessment, Aviation
Evan Arnold
UAS Engineering Research Associate, NextGen Air Transportation Program
Jim Lawson
Assistant Director, Aerospace Research Center
Victoria Natalie
OAIRE Director of Strategic Innovation
Dr. Julie A. Adams
Professor of Comp. Sci., Associate Director of the CoRIS Institute
Andrew Shepherd
Executive and Chief Scientist, UAS
Jerry Hendrix
Director, UAS Programs
Cathy Cahill
Director, The Alaska Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration Geophysical Institute
Steve Robinson
Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Mark Ewing
Director, KU-FRL
Paul Snyder
Assistant Chair and Director, UAS Program
Robin Rand (General, USAF, ret)
Executive Director, OADII
Bob Palmer, PhD
Executive Director, ARRC
Paige Brochu
Director of Spatial Analysis Lab
Research Assistant Professor
Tombo Jones
Director, Virginia Tech Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership
Gerardo Olivares
Sr. Research Scientist & Director, Crash Dynamics and Virtual Engineering & Flight
Affiliate Universities
Earle Thompson
Deputy Director, Military Research Programs
Zena Assaad
Senior Research Fellow
Adrian C Cole
Programme Manager – Digital Aviation Research & Technology Centre
William Weldon, PhD
Assistant Professor
Unmanned Systems Program Coordinator, Indiana State University
Lingxiao Wang
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
Dr. Kin Huat Low
Professor, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Daniel Zelazo
Assistant Professor, Aerospace Engineering
M. Javed Kahn
Professor and Head,
Aerospace Science and Engineering Department
Shelley Sitahal
Director, Research Partnerships and Innovation
Michelle Hanlon
Co-Director, Center for Air and Space Law
Jim Scanlan
Professor of Aerospace and Design,
Director of MSC Unmanned Aircraft Systems Design