AERO-ASTRO, ENERGY, and the ENVIRONMENT

Hamsa Balakrishnan, assistant professor
Energy-related research categories: Global Systems – transportation and vehicle systems; Tools – modeling and simulation. Interests: air traffic control, traffic flow management, airport operations scheduling, hybrid systems - profile-

Peter Belobaba, principal research scientist
Energy-related research categories: Global Systems – transportation and vehicle systems. Interests: air transportation economics and operations analysis; airline pricing and revenue management; airline and aerospace industry analysis - profile-

Leo Daniel, Martin Luther King visiting professor
Energy-related research categories: Global Systems – transportation and vehicle systems • Tools - nanotechnology. Interests: aerospace materials, structural dynamics and aeroelasticity, nano composites, morphing and intelligent structures, spacecraft and rlv design -profile

Olivier De Weck, associate professor
Energy-related research categories: Tools – modeling, simulations, complex systems. Interests: lifecycle modeling and optimization, design for changeability and standardization, technology infusion in complex systems, modularity, offshore facility design with tie-in -profile-

Mark Drela, Terry J. Kohler Professor of Fluid Dynamics
Energy-related research categories: Transformations – wind. Interests: aerodynamics, computational fluid dynamics, design methodology -profile-

Emilio Frazzoli, associate professor
Energy-related research categories: Global Systems – transportation and vehicle systems; Tools – modeling and simulation. Interests: autonomous systems, air traffic control, cyber-physical systems, optimization, control theory, robotics. -profile-

Edward Greitzer, H.N. Slater Professor
Energy-related research categories: Innovations –carbon Sequestration; Global Systems – transportation and vehicle systems. Interests: turbomachinery; propulsion, silent aircraft, flow control, internal flow; university-industry collaboration; robust design of gas turbine engines -profile-

Jonathan How, professor
Energy-related research categories: Global Systems – transportation and vehicle systems. Interests: navigation and control: gps sensing for navigation and control of formation flying vehicles, experimental and theoretical robust control, trajectory optimization and activity planning for multiple uavs -profile-

Paul Lagace, professor
Energy-related research categories: Tools – structural engineering. Interests: composite materials and their structures, fracture, longevity, and damage tolerance, manufacturing, generic systems applications, engineering systems -profile-

Nancy Leveson, professor
Energy-related research categories: Transformations – policy regulation, siting, security; Global Systems – science and policy of climate change; Tools – modeling, simulation, complex systems. Interests: design for safety, system safety engineering, risk analysis and risk management, socio-technical systems policy and safety analysis, software and human safety, systems engineering and analysis of software-intensive systems, security, organization and safety culture -profile-

Youssef Marzouk, Boeing Assistant Professor
Energy-related research categories: Innovations – hydrocarbon products and processing, energy conversion alternatives, carbon sequestration; Global Systems – transportation and vehicle systems, carbon management; Tools – modeling and simulation, complex systems Interests: fluid dynamics and chemically reacting flow in energy conversion/propulsion systems and in the environment; uncertainty quantification; computational simulation for design, prediction, and decision-making in complex uncertain systems; data assimilation and inverse problems; carbon sequestration; kinetic and thermophysical models for alternative fuels -profile-

Jaume Peraire, professor
Energy-related research categories: Transformations - wind: Tools – modeling, simulation, complex systems. Interests: computational mechanics, high performance computing, aerodynamics, flapping -profile-

Raul Radovitzky, associate professor
Energy-related research categories: Tools – nanotechnology and modeling, simulation and complex systems Interests: computational solid mechanics and fluid, structure interaction, mechanics of materials, multiscale modeling and simulation, high-performance and massively parallel computing -profile-

Zoltan Spakovszky, associate professor
Energy-related research categories: Global Systems – transportation and vehicle systems. Interests: internal flows, turbomachinery, propulsion systems and control, aeroengine dynamic system modeling, aero-acoustics -profile-

Choon Tan, senior research engineer
Energy-related research categories: Innovations – energy conversion alternatives, carbon sequestration; Global Systems - transportation and vehicle systems. Interests: Unsteady and three-dimensional flow in turbomachinery and propulsive devices; aerodynamic instabilities in aircraft gas turbine engines; propulsion systems -profile-

Ian Waitz, professor, department head
Energy-related research categories: Transformations – biofuels; Tools – modeling and simulation, complex systems. Interests: modeling and evaluation of climate, local air quality and noise impacts of aviation, including the assessment of technologies, alternative fuels, aircraft operating procedures, air transportation system -profile-

Brian Wardle, associate professor
Energy-related research categories: Innovations – hydrocarbon products and processing, energy conversion alternatives, heat management; Transformations - hydrogen; Global Systems – transportation and vehicle systems; Tools – nanotechnology. Interests: composite and layered materials; hybrid nanocomposite systems; mems power devices and energy harvesting; structural health monitoring systems; active materials and devices; fracture, fatigue, and damage mechanics; finite-element modeling; structural response and testing; buckling mechanics -profile-

Karen Willcox, associate professor
Energy-related research categories: Global Systems – transportation and vehicle systems; Tools – modeling, simulation, and complex systems Interests • aviation environmental system modeling; simulation, optimization and control of reacting flow; surrogate and reduced-order modeling; design of environmentally sensitive aircraft; uncertainty assessment of large-scale policy-making tools. -profile-

Brian Williams, professor
Energy-related research categories • Innovations - building efficiency technologies, electric power systems and policy • Global Systems - transportation and vehicle systems, buildings and urban design, science and policy of climate change • Tools – modeling and simulation Interests • automated modeling; hybrid and autonomous systems control including intelligent infrastructure, intelligent buildings, and networks of autonomous air vehicles, satellites and underwater vehicles -profile-