Peter P. Belobaba is a principal research scientist at MIT, where he teaches graduate courses on the airline industry and airline management. He is program manager of MIT’s Global Airline Industry Program and director of the MIT PODS Revenue Management Research Consortium.

Dr. Belobaba holds a SM in transportation and a PhD in flight transportation systems from MIT. He is lead author and editor of the recently released book, The Global Airline Industry. Dr. Belobaba has been involved in research and consulting related to airline economics, pricing, competition and revenue management since 1985. He has worked as a consultant on the evaluation, development, simulation and implementation of revenue management systems at more than 40 airlines and other companies worldwide.

He has also published articles dealing with operating costs, pricing, revenue management and airline competition in Airline Business, Operations Research, Transportation Science, Decision Sciences, Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management, Transportation Research and the Journal of Air Transport Management.

Crawley’s research focuses on the domain of architecture, design and decision support in complex technical systems. He is currently engaged with NASA on the design of its lunar and Earth observing systems, and with BP on oil exploration system designs.

Crawley is a former head of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and was a finalist in the NASA astronaut selection in 1980. He received an SB (1976) and an SM (1978) in aeronautics and astronautics, and an ScD (1981) in aerospace structures from MIT. Crawley is a fellow of the AIAA and the Royal Aeronautical Society (UK), and is a member of three national academies of engineering: the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Science, the (UK) Royal Academy of Engineering, and the US National Academy of Engineering. He was awarded a Doctor Honoris Causa by Chalmers University, Sweden in 2006.

Mary Cummings is director of the Humans and Automation Laboratory and an associate professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems Division.

She is a former Navy pilot, and was one of the Navy's first female fighter pilots. She specializes in human interaction with complex automated systems, including manned and unmanned aircraft.

Mark Drela is the Terry J. Kohler Professor of Fluid Dynamics at the MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He joined the MIT faculty in January 1986. His primary research interests are in low-speed and transonic aerodynamics, design and performance of aircraft and aeromechanical devices and computational aerodynamic design methodology.

He has developed a number of computational aerodynamic design/analysis codes currently being used in the aircraft and gas-turbine industry. He has also developed tools for analysis and design of control systems for highly aeroelastic aircraft. He teaches aircraft design fundamentals, external aerodynamics and fluid mechanics of boundary layers at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Drela participated extensively in the Chrysalis, Monarch and Daedalus human-powered aircraft projects at MIT. Daedalus set the world record for distance (116 km) and duration (four hours) in 1988. He also was the advisor and pilot for the MIT Human-Powered Hydrofoil Project (1989-1993), which holds the current human-powered watercraft world speed record of 18.5 knots.

Since 1996, he has worked as a consultant for numerous R&D projects in aircraft, turbomachinery, bicycles and America’s Cup sailboats. He has been active in free-flight and radio-control model aircraft since childhood. Drela obtained his SB (1982), SM (1983) and PhD (1985) from MIT’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Edward M. Greitzer is the H. N. Slater Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT. He received his BA, MS and PhD from Harvard University. Prior to joining MIT in 1977, he was with United Technologies Corporation, and he was again at United Technologies Research Center as director, Aeromechanical, Chemical, and Fluid Systems, while on leave from MIT. He is a former director of the MIT Gas Turbine Laboratory.

His research spans a range of topics on gas-turbine engines for aircraft and land-based power and on different types of turbomachinery. These include propulsion, gas-turbine engine stability and control, turbomachinery fluid dynamics, and internal flow in fluid machinery. Greitzer is a three-time recipient of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Gas Turbine Award, an ASME Freeman Scholar in Fluids Engineering, an International Gas Turbine Institute (IGTI) Scholar, a recipient of the IGTI Aircraft Engine Technology Award, the ASME R. Tom Sawyer Award and the Air Force Exceptional Civilian Service Medal.

He is lead author of the book Internal Flow: Concepts and Applications, published by Cambridge University Press, and was the MIT co-lead of the Cambridge-MIT Silent Aircraft Initiative. Greitzer is a fellow of ASME and AIAA, an honorary professor of Beihang University, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and an international fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.

John Hansman is a professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT, where he is head of the Humans and Automation Division. He also is director of the International Center for Air Transportation.

His current research interests focus on advanced cockpit information systems, including Flight Management Systems, Air-Ground Datalink, Electronic Charting, Advanced Alerting Systems, and Flight Crew Situational Awareness. Hansman received a PhD from MIT in 1982. He holds six U.S. patents and has authored more than 250 technical publications. He is also an internationally recognized expert in aviation meteorological hazards such as icing and windshear.

He is a fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). He received the 1998 Bose Award for Excellence in Teaching, the 1997 FAA Excellence in Aviation Award, the 1994 Losey Atmospheric Award from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the 1990 OSTIV Diploma for Technical Contributions and the 1986 AIAA Award for Best Paper in Thermophysics. He recently served as co-chair of the MIT Presidential Task Force on Student Life and Learning.

Jeffrey Hoffman is Professor of the Practice of Aerospace Engineering in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and a former NASA astronaut who flew on five space shuttle missions, including the initial rescue and repair of the Hubble Space Telescope.

Jonathan P. How is a professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT (tenured in 2003, promoted to full professor in 2007). He received a BASc from the University of Toronto in 1987 and his SM and PhD in aeronautics and astronautics from MIT in 1990 and 1993, respectively. He then studied for two years at MIT as a postdoctoral associate for the Middeck Active Control Experiment (MACE), which flew onboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour in March 1995.

Prior to joining MIT in 2000, he was an assistant professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University. He has graduated a total of 28 PhD students while at MIT and Stanford University on topics related to GPS navigation, multivehicle planning and robust/hybrid control. He has published more than 200 articles in technical proceedings, and 59 papers in technical journals.

Current research interests include the design and implementation of distributed robust planning algorithms to coordinate multiple autonomous vehicles in dynamic uncertain environments; and adaptive flight control to enable autonomous agile flight and aerobatics. How was the planning and control lead for the MIT DARPA Urban Challenge team that placed fourth in the race at Victorville, Calif. He was the recipient of the 2002 Institute of Navigation Burka Award, a recipient of a Boeing Special Invention award in 2008, is the Raymond L. Bisplinghoff Fellow for MIT AeroAstro, an associate fellow of AIAA and a senior member of IEEE.

Paul A. Lagace is a professor of aeronautics and astronautics and engineering systems at MIT, where he also received his SB, SM and PhD. He is a highly regarded international authority on the response and failure of composite structures and is recognized as a leader for the development of composite structures technology, particularly as related to the safety of aircraft structural systems.

He has more recently pursued work related to broader systems issues, particularly dealing with the use of technology and associated risk. He has frequently served as an advisor and consultant to industry and government agencies on aspects of structural technology and broader engineering systems. He has served as a consultant, expert witness and member of committees and panels in the investigation of accidents and their implications.

He is a member of several societies and national committees, a fellow of the AIAA, the ASC and the ASTM, and has served for a number of years as president of the ICCM (International Committee on Composite Materials), being recognized as a World Fellow of Composites and honorary member of the Executive Council. He is very interested in teaching and advising and has won several teaching awards, including being recognized as a MacVicar Faculty Fellow.

Paulo C. Lozano holds a PhD in space propulsion from MIT (2003). In 2006, he was appointed to the faculty of MIT’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics where he is currently an associate professor.

His main interests are plasma physics, space propulsion, ion beam physics, small satellites and nanotechnology. In 2007, he received MIT’s Karl Chang Innovation award for his work in electrochemical microfabrication on porous metals and in 2008 received the Young Investigator Program Award by the AFOSR for his work in electrospray propulsion. He has published more than 50 conference and journal publications and teaches subjects in space and rocket propulsion, fluid mechanics and plasma physics.