Brock Lascara is a Lead Systems Engineer at the MITRE Corporation with 10 years of experience working in the aviation domain. Since joining MITRE, Brock has used his systems engineering and data science expertise to support the FAA in exploring and implementing concepts focused on increasing the interoperation between aircraft and air traffic management systems. Brock performs concept development, requirements development, modelling/simulation, and system validation activities for both flight-deck and ground-based automation systems. In particular, he focuses on implementing time-based management operations and supporting working groups to develop avionics standards for ADS-B applications, such as Interval Management and FIS-B.
In 2017, Brock took on a new role as Principle Investigator for Urban Air Mobility exploration at MITRE. He leads a team exploring the critical challenges and barriers to the Urban Air Mobility vision. His research has focused on challenges associated with airspace integration and safety assurance of autonomous systems.
Brock graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a MS in Systems Engineering and earned a BS in Electrical Engineering at the University of Virginia. He also holds a Part 107 remote pilot certificate.
Jim Scooler is the director of Aerodynamics at Gulfstream Aerospace Company which develops the most technically advanced and arguably the most beautiful business jets in the world.
Jim has 30 years of experience in commercial aviation in the fields of aerodynamics and the flight sciences. He began his career at Boeing in Seattle, WA, working in new product development and certification of the 777 family of airplanes and the Boeing 787, a game-changer in commercial airline efficiency.
He joined Gulfstream 11 years ago to help develop the G650 and, most recently, the G500/G600 in Gulfstream’s first-ever concurrent airplane development effort.
He has a BS in Aerospace Engineering from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and an MBA from University of Washington, with an emphasis in marketing of innovation and technology.
He enjoys mentoring young leaders at Gulfstream with high potential and leads the effort to engage its talented and motivated engineering workforce to build a track record of excellence and innovation.
He and his wife Kiersten currently reside outside of Savannah, GA with one daughter still in high school and two other daughters in college and beyond.
Dr. Bill Barry became NASA’s sixth Chief Historian in September 2010. Hebegan work at NASA in 2001 after retiring from a 22-year career in the USAir Force. Initially, he worked in NASA’s international relations office, andthen served as the NASA European Representative at the United StatesEmbassy in Paris from 2007-2010, before being appointed Chief Historian. Agraduate, with honors, of the United States Air Force Academy (1979), healso holds a Masters Degree from Stanford University (1987) and aDoctorate from Oxford University (1996). His doctoral dissertation, “TheMissile Design Bureaux and Soviet Manned Space Policy 1953–1970” wonthe American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics History ManuscriptAward in 2000.
Dave has been with the FAA for 11 years. He is currently an FAA Test Pilot in Aircraft Certification. He is an avid general aviation pilot with a passion for enabling the certification of advanced technologies to improve safety.
Currently, he is leading the FAA in collaborating with industry and NASA to develop regulations and certifications standards for fly-by-wire in general aviation and simplified handling qualities. Additional general aviation research areas he is pursuing are automatic air and ground collision avoidance certification and machine learning algorithms for optimum pilot – system teaming.
Dave graduated from M.I.T. with M.S. and B.S. Degrees in Aeronautical Engineering.
He is a fighter pilot veteran (A-10, F-16, F-35), having served 20 years in the U.S. Air Force and is a graduate of the USAF Test Pilot School. In 2003 he was assigned as the first USAF Test Pilot on the F-35 development program. This duty involved development and qualification of new technologies including powered lift, head mounted displays and advanced fly-by wire.
He has logged more than 7500 hours in over 175 different jets, piston airplanes, electric aircraft, helicopters, gliders, seaplanes, and airships. In addition he is a flight instructor and pilot examiner.
Dr. David E. Cox has 28 years of experience with NASA and is currently a senior research engineer in NASA Langley’s Dynamic Systems and Controls Branch. He serves as the controls integrated-product-team lead for NASA’s X-57 project, a manned flight demonstrator for distributed electric propulsion technologies. Within X-57 he is responsible for propulsion and flight-dynamics model development and flight simulation efforts. Dr. Cox has previously worked on UAV flight projects for NASA’s AirSTAR subscale testbed and the Learn-to-Fly adaptive-control flight experiments. Previous research interests include convex optimization for the design of active flutter control systems, distributed control for acoustics, active magnetic suspension systems, and real-time software design. Dr. Cox has a PhD degree from Duke University in Mechanical Engineering, and a Masters/Bachelors from Virginia Tech in Electrical Engineering.
Pete Kostiuk is the founder and president of Robust Analytics, a woman-owned small business that specializes in R&D for air traffic management and aviation safety. Among some of their more interesting current projects, they are building an application for managing a fleet of autonomous aircraft, developing a real-time terminal area risk analysis system, developing applications of speech-to-text technology for aviation safety analysis, and have assisted the FAA with UAS Integration in the NAS since 2012. He has worked in aviation R&D for over 25 years, and previously held positions with LMI, CNA Corporation, and the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago a long time ago.
Arne is the Project Executive of Wayfinder, a project with the goal of building autonomous flight and machine learning solutions to enable self-piloted aircraft operation. Arne is passionate about robotics and autonomous vehicles. He has previously held engineering leadership positions at global companies such as Volkswagen/Audi and Infineon, and at aspiring Silicon Valley startups, namely Lucid Motors/Atieva, Knightscope, and Better Place.
Arne earned a Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Technical University of Munich, and held a computer vision and data analysis research position at Stanford University.
Helen L. Reed, Ph.D., P.E. holds the titles of Regents Professor, Presidential Professor for Teaching Excellence, and Holder of the Edward “Pete” Aldridge ’60 Professorship within the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University. She joined Texas A&M in 2004, served as Department Head (2004-08), and founded and directs both the Computational Stability & Transition Laboratory and the AggieSat Lab Small Satellite Program. She is also co-Founder of Chandah Space Technologies. She has 41 years of experience in boundary-layer receptivity, stability, transition, and flow control for both 2-D and 3-D flowfields over the speed range from low subsonic to hypersonic, and 26 years of experience in micro- and nano- satellite design and operations and student programs. She is a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics (AIAA), American Physical Society, and American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). She was selected for the 2018 AIAA/National Academy of Engineering 3rd Yvonne C. Brill Lectureship in Aerospace Engineering, 2018 AIAA Fluid Dynamics Award, 2016 ASME Kate Gleason Award, 2007 AIAA/American Society for Engineering Education J. Leland Atwood Award, and 2014 Minnie Stevens Piper Professor Award from the State of Texas.
Kristi J. Shryock is the Frank and Jean Raymond Foundation Inc. Endowed Instructional Associate Professor, Associate Department Head in Department of Aerospace Engineering, and Director of the Craig and Galen Brown Engineering Honors Program at Texas A&M University. She received her BS, MS, and PhD from the College of Engineering at Texas A&M. She is regularly invited to present her work related to teaching and the engineering education field at events both nationally and internationally. She served as lead author on a paper at the 2011 Frontiers in Education Conference that won the highly coveted Benjamin Dasher Best Paper Award. She also received the Instructional Faculty Teaching Award in 2015 and 2018 from the College of Engineering. Dr. Shryock has supervised numerous undergraduate and graduate students on projects related to engineering education, including active learning, personalized learning modules, enhanced understanding using interactive documents, team-based learning, and teaching with technology. She is currently PI or Co-PI on three NSF grants totaling over $5M related to the educational experience for students. One grant, in particular, has placed the aerospace engineering department in a very elite group of only nineteen engineering departments in the nation. The NSF-sponsored project aims to revolutionize the aerospace engineering educational experience. The program goal is to change the culture of instruction and learning in a way that imparts students with knowledge, skills and confidence to look beyond traditional boundaries. Doing so will lead to a new aerospace engineering educational experience that will appeal to a more diverse student population and will strengthen the impact of Texas A&M graduates in both traditional and nontraditional fields. She is known by students and faculty as having boundless energy and enthusiasm and a true passion for helping students learn and succeed.
