Gökçin Çınar is a Research Engineer II at Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory (ASDL) at Georgia Institute of Technology. Çınar’s main research interests include electrified aircraft propulsion and power, aircraft systems architecting, design and integration, and power management optimization. Since 2012, she has been involved in a range of projects including but not limited to future aircraft technologies, green aviation, electrified aircraft and its propulsion subsystems, thermal management systems, and model-based systems engineering.
Çınar received Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Tech in 2015 and 2018, respectively. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering from Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey in 2012. Her doctoral dissertation titled “Methodology for Dynamic Sizing of Electric Power Generation and Distribution Architectures” was conducted in consultation with Prof. Dimitri Mavris at Georgia Tech. As part of her Ph.D. work, she created a parametric, physics-based novel aircraft design and analysis software called “Electrified Propulsion Architecture Sizing and Synthesis (E-PASS)”. E-PASS has since enabled various new research topics funded by entities such as NASA, AFRL, and Boeing.
As a research engineer at ASDL, Çınar leads or works with multi-disciplinary groups to conduct fundamental research funded by various sponsors from the industry and government. She advises graduate students on their projects and theses. As someone who likes to add their own touch to their “habitat”, Çınar also kick-started or rekindled some projects at ASDL that were not necessarily in her job definition. She manages ASDL’s website and social media accounts on Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn, and rekindled the ASDL publication repository on Georgia Tech’s open-access publication repository, SMARTech, where you can find the many research papers and dissertations published by ASDL over the years. Çınar started the ASDL Knowledge Sharing Project which provides a platform for researchers to share their experience, codes, tools, documents, or Q&A’s.
Çınar is a member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). Within AIAA, she serves as the Publications and Policy Chair of the Electrified Aircraft Technical Committee, and is a also the Technical Program Co-Chair for the 2021 AIAA/IEEE Electric Aircraft Technologies Symposium.
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 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 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.
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.
Ignacio Echavarria acts as Skydweller Aero Inc.’s Deputy Power System IPT & Battery Management Lead. Prior to joining Skydweller Aero Inc., Ignacio held the title of Electric Propulsion System Lead Engineer for E-Fan X, a retired Airbus venture. Prior to E-Fan X, he worked for Airbus Defense and Space, Commercial and Corporate Technology Divisions. Ignacio holds a Master’s of Science in Aerospace Engineering from SUNY Buffalo and “diplôme d’ingénieur” from ENSICA. He currently lives in Madrid, Spain and is fluent in Spanish and French.
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.
Mr. Darmstadt is a drive and power systems engineer and technologist at the Boeing Company. He has 10 years’ experience in dynamic systems and propulsion system design and technology development. He has helped to establish an electric propulsion design and analysis capability within Boeing’s Vertical Lift Business Unit. He is currently supporting multiple electric propulsion programs, including group 1, 3, and 5 unmanned aerial systems and manned air-vehicles, each in various stages of the design, build, and test development cycle. He is an active member of the VFS Propulsion Committee and SAE Transmission and Driveline Committee. He was lead author and principal investigator for the NASA sponsored, Hazard Analysis and Failure Modes and Effects Criticality Analysis (FMECA) of Four Concept Vehicle Propulsion Systems.
Dr. Hall is a Research Engineer at the MIT Gas Turbine Laboratory, where he conducts research on advanced aircraft propulsion technology, including propulsion-airframe integration and electrification. Prior to his current role at MIT, he was the Propulsion Group Lead at Aurora Flight Sciences, where he led a multi-disciplinary team in advanced propulsion research and rapid development of propulsion systems for experimental prototype aircraft, including leading the Aurora team supporting Boeing’s Electrified Aircraft Propulsion (EAP) Program with NASA. In January 2021, he will be joining the Aerospace Engineering faculty at The Pennsylvania State University as an assistant professor.
As a graduate student at MIT, Hall was a member of the team that developed the D8 aircraft concept during the NASA N+3 Program. After graduating in 2015, he spent two terms teaching at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) as a Postdoctoral Fellow before returning to the MIT Gas Turbine Laboratory, where he was the technical lead for the NASA LEARN3 Program investigating the feasibility of electrified propulsion for ultra-efficient commercial aircraft.
Dr. Hall received his Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics from Duke University and his Masters and PhD in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT. He is a member of the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
Fay is the Associate Director for Flight Strategy, Integrated Aviation Systems Program for NASA Aeronautics. In this capacity he leads planning and formulation of large flight demonstrations. He is currently focused on establishing the feasibility of Megawatt-class electrified powertrain system flight demonstrations with the industrial base, other government, and academia.
Previously, from 2009-2016, Fay was the Project Manager of the Environmentally Responsible Aviation Project within NASA’s Integrated System Research Program. In this role, he directed the formulation and execution of NASA’s integrated system research project focused on the subsonic transport sector, working in partnership with Industry, FAA, AFRL and other government agencies. The technology development project was focused on research, development and integration of engine and airframe technologies that enable dramatic improvements in noise, emissions, and performance characteristics of future subsonic aircraft operating in the air transportation system. The six-year, $420M project closed out in March 2016, meeting all technical objectives. During the 6-year life cycle, ERA over 1000 individuals from government and industry collaborated on the project. The ERA Team was awarded the Aviation Week Laureate Award for Technology in 2016, the Royal Aeronautical Society Team Specialists Gold Award in 2017.
Fay is a graduate of Virginia Tech (Aerospace Engineering, B.S., 1981, M.S., 1982, Ph.D., 1988) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.B.A., 1997). He is a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society, and a Fellow of the AIAA.
