Leadership
Stephen Luxion
Executive Director
Nancy Blacker
Deputy Director
Hannah Thach
Associate Director, Research
David Battaly
Associate Director, ASSUREd Safe
Whitley Alford
Financial Manager

Core Universities
Tom Brooks
Director,
Raspet Flight Research Laboratory at Mississippi State University
Kari-Babski Reeves
Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies,
Bagley College of Engineering
Robert Moorhead
Director,
Geosystems Research Institute at Mississippi State University
Kurtulus Izzetoglu
Assistant Professor of Research,
School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems
Ellen J. Bass
Professor and Head,
Department of Information Science
Richard Stansbury (Primary POC)
Associate Professor, Computer Engineering and Computer Science Department of Electrical, Computer, Software, and Systems Engineering
Tim Holt
Program Chair, Aeronautics and Associate Professor of Aeronautical Science, College of Aviation Embry Riddle Aeronautical University – Prescott
David Ison
Assistant Professor of Aeronautics, Research Chair of the College of Aeronautics
Embry Riddle Aeronautical University – World Wide
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
Daniel Findley
Associate Director, Education and Training
Director, Economics and Policy Assessment, Aviation
Evan Arnold
UAS Engineering Research Associate, NextGen Air Transportation Program
Dr. Julie A. Adams
Professor of Comp. Sci., Associate Director of the CoRIS Institute
Jeff Miller
Chief Operation Officer for Unmanned Aerial Systems
Jim Gregory
Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Associate Director of Aerospace Research Center
Tombo Jones
Director, Virginia Tech Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership
Gerardo Olivares
Sr. Research Scientist & Director, Crash Dynamics and Virtual Engineering & Flight
David Arterburn
Director, Rotor Craft Systems Engineering and Simulation Center
Cathy Cahill
Director, The Alaska Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration Geophysical Institute
Susan Ustin
Professor of Environmental Resource Science, Dept of Land, Air and Water Resources,
Director of Center for Spatial Technologies and Remote Sensing
Mark Ewing
Director, KU-FRL
Mark Askelson
Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems
Jarlath O’Neil-Dunne
Research Associate, Director of Spatial Analysis Lab
Affiliate Universities
Earle Thompson
Deputy Director, Military Research Programs
Richard Baker
Director, Center or Unmanned Systems & Human Capital Development
Rastko R. Selmic
AT&T Professor, Department 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
Jim Scanlan
Professor of Aerospace and Design,
Director of MSC Unmanned Aircraft Systems Design