People Category: EATS

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.

Tine Tomažič

Dr. Tine Tomažič (male) was born in 1983 and received B.Sc. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from University of Ljubljana in 2007 and 2014 respectively. His work in systems automation and human machine interfaces ranges from autopilot technologies for unmanned aerial vehicles to electric and hybrid-electric propulsion systems. Tomažič was involved in development of world’s first 2-seat and world’s first electric 4-seat aircraft, the Taurus Electro and the Taurus G4. His current research is in the field of certifiable hybrid-electric propulsion systems and their intuitive user interfaces, where besides being involved in the development, Tomazic is active in the working group with ASTM F44.40 to rewrite current General Aviation design standards to allow proliferation of electric flight. He is also a member of SAE, EASA T4S Technology for Safety and a recognized global expert in the field of electric flight. He is the CTO of Pipistrel.

John S. Langford, III

John currently serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Electra.aero. John is an aerospace entrepreneur who founded Aurora Flight Sciences in 1989, Athena Technologies in 1998, and Electra.aero in 2020.  Aurora pioneered advanced robotic aircraft, Athena developed advanced flight control solutions, and Electra is developing sustainable aviation solutions for regional mobility.  Athena was sold to Rockwell Collins in 2008 and Aurora was sold to Boeing in 2017.

He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the immediate past-president of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).

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