People Category: AIAA Propulsion and Energy Forum 2020

Kevin Antcliff is a conceptual designer and systems analyst who works with NASA researchers and industry partners to evaluate the benefit of various emerging technologies and envision the future of aviation.

Kevin believes that aviation should be a part of our everyday lives. For over ten years he has worked at NASA Langley Research Center to promote this belief by developing and analyzing regional air mobility (RAM), urban air mobility (UAM), and hybrid-electric commercial aircraft concepts.

Kevin currently serves as the Deputy Lead for Emerging Applications and Technologies and is an active member of the AIAA Transformational Flight Integration and Outreach Committee and AHS Transformative Vertical Flight Working Groups.

Kevin holds a Master and Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering from Virginia Tech.

Susan X. Ying

Dr. Ying is the Senior Vice President of Global Partnerships for Ampaire. She is also a Director and Board member for the Lindbergh Foundation, and the immediate past President of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences (ICAS) serving on the Executive Committee which leads in shaping the agenda of this multinational professional aerospace organization. Dr. Ying has devoted over 38 years to the aerospace industry, with experience at NASA, Boeing, and most recently the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC) as the Chief Integration Officer.

Demonstrating success both at individual and team levels, Dr. Ying has been the recipient of many honors, including the People’s Republic of China Friendship Award, Asian American Engineer of the Year Award, Boeing Professional Excellence Award from the CTO, NASA Group Achievement Award, AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Best Paper Award, and the Professional Achievement Award for Women of Color in Technology. Dr. Ying is also recognized as a Fellow of the AIAA and Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society (FRAeS). With a deep passion for flight, Dr. Ying holds a Commercial Pilot License and is a FAA-Certified Flight Instructor. She received her PhD and MS degrees in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford University and BS in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Cornell University.

Remo Gerber

Remo has extensive leadership experience in hyper-growth startups, as MD for Western Europe at Gett and as COO Northern Europe at Groupon. Before this he spent four years at McKinsey & Co., having completed a PhD at the University of Oxford.

Alberto Aurelio Molina Sanchez

Alberto Graduated in Energy technologies in the Carlos III university in Madrid (Spain). He joined Airbus in 2009 to support the development of the electrical system of the A400M program. He specialized in aircraft systems integration and for the last three years he is working as an architect for the electrical propulsion system of the City Airbus. Alberto’s main focus is on developing electrical systems which will allow a safe urban air mobility in the cities of the future.

Gökçin Çınar

Dr. Çınar received her Ph.D. degree in the area of electrified aircraft from the School of Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. She works at the Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory (ASDL) at Georgia Tech as a research engineer focusing on electrified aircraft architectures, design and system integration. During her years 8 at ASDL, she has been contributing to various projects on next generation technologies and electrified aircraft studies sponsored by several entities including NASA, Boeing and AFRL.

Tim Maclay

Dr. Timothy Maclay is the President of Celestial Insight, Inc., an aerospace consulting company he founded in 2003 to provide engineering and policy support to commercial and government customers. Areas of concentration include space mission development, satellite operations, and environmentally responsible practices.

Dr. Maclay’s industry experience includes OneWeb, as the Director of Mission Systems Engineering, and before that, Orbcomm, as the VP of Systems Engineering. He has spent nearly 25 years developing and operating low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellite constellations for global communications. He began his career with Kaman Sciences working various space safety topics after earning a PhD in Aerospace Engineering Sciences from the University of Colorado in the fields of astrodynamics, debris environment modeling, and hypervelocity impact physics.

Dr. Maclay has chaired conferences and published numerous articles on orbital debris and has served on related technical committees for the National Research Council, NASA’s Engineering Safety Center, the AIAA, and the IAA. He has served on the board of the Hypervelocity Impact Society and currently serves on advisory boards for ClearSpace SA, and for the World Economic Forum’s Space Sustainability Rating.

Michelle Rucker

Michelle Rucker is 34-year veteran of NASA. She began her career in the Houston oil industry, designing down-hole sensors while pursuing undergraduate and graduate degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Rice University. She began her NASA career as a test engineer at the White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico, initially supporting the space shuttle Challenger accident investigation through solid rocket booster materials testing. At White Sands, she also managed the two-stage light gas gun hypervelocity impact research laboratory and developed environmental control and life support systems for the International Space Station (ISS). Michelle has had the good fortune to participate in a range of exciting projects, such as supervising spacesuit and Extravehicular Activity (EVA) tools development, ISS exercise equipment system engineering, and Orion and Altair lunar lander test and verification. She currently leads the Mars Integration Group, developing crewed Mars mission concepts.

Steven G. Labbe

Mr. Steven G. Labbe is the Director of Engineering at Intuitive Machines, LLC where he serves as the Chief Engineer for their Nova-C Lunar Lander development, slated to fly IM’s first mission to the lunar surface in response to NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) Task Order. Mr. Labbe brings along more than 35 years of service and experience with NASA, where he advanced through increasing levels of responsibility focused on the development of NASA human space flight systems. He began his career at the Johnson Space Center in 1984 joining the Aeroscience Branch where he was responsible for development of Space Shuttle ascent aerodynamic characteristics via wind tunnel test, flight test and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis and as the Space Shuttle Ascent Aerodynamic System Manager responsible for the development and certification of all launch vehicle aerodynamic environments.

Mr. Labbe served as both the Deputy Chief and Chief of the Applied Aeroscience & CFD Branch, where he was instrumental in the development of the X-38 Project Flight Dynamics and Aerodynamics and he guided the branch through critical investigation support, reconstruction and assessment of the STS-107 Columbia accident. In 2003, Mr. Labbe was assigned to the newly established NASA Engineering and Safety Center (NESC) as the Discipline Expert for Flight Sciences, where he established an agency wide Flight Sciences Technical Discipline Team in support of a wide variety of NESC Independent Technical Assessments.

In October 2007 Mr. Labbe was named the Chief Engineer for the Constellation Program representing NASA’s engineering community as the Engineering Technical Authority for all program level activities. In January 2011, Mr. Labbe was selected as the Chief of the Aeroscience & Flight Mechanics Division where for 8 years he led the Division’s in line support of the Orion Program, oversight of the International Space Station (ISS) and independent verification analysis of the Commercial Crew Program. In 2018, Mr. Labbe was selected as the Chief Engineer for HEOMD’s Gateway Program. Mr. Labbe retired from NASA in 2019 and joined Intuitive Machines soon after. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Cincinnati in 1984.