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.
