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
Rob Premo
Interim Director,
Raspet Flight Research Laboratory at Mississippi State University
Kurtulus Izzetoglu
Assistant Professor of Research,
School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems
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
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
Douglas Hamon
Chief Operation
Director of Applied Research and Development
Andrew Shepherd
Executive and Chief Scientist, UAS
Jim Lawson
Assistant Director, Aerospace Research Center
Tombo Jones
Director, Virginia Tech Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership
Gerardo Olivares
Sr. Research Scientist & Director, Crash Dynamics and Virtual Engineering & Flight
Jerry Hendrix
Director, UAS Programs
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
Paul Snyder
Assistant Chair and Director, UAS Program
Jarlath O’Neil-Dunne
Research Associate, Director of Spatial Analysis Lab
Affiliate Universities
Earle Thompson
Deputy Director, Military Research Programs
Zena Assaad
Senior Research Fellow
Adrian C Cole
Programme Manager – Digital Aviation Research & Technology Centre
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
Michelle Hanlon
Co-Director, Center for Air and Space Law
Jim Scanlan
Professor of Aerospace and Design,
Director of MSC Unmanned Aircraft Systems Design