UROP Supervisors

Air traffic control, traffic flow management, airport operations scheduling, hybrid systems

Climate and air quality impacts of aviation; aircraft propulsion and emissions; alternative fuels for aviation and ground transportation;...

Air transportation economics and operations analysis; airline pricing and revenue management; airline and aerospace industry analysis

Wavefront control systems for exoplanet exploration and free-space, laser communication, Spacecraft radio systems for space weather and...

Dr. Crawley’s research has focused on the architecture, design, and decision support and optimization in complex technical systems subject...

Computational fluid dynamics, numerical analysis, probabilistic design, engineering education

Aerospace systems, engineering systems, technology roadmapping and development, multidisciplinary design optimization

Aerodynamics, computational fluid dynamics, design methodology, low-order modeling of aeromechanical systems

Gas turbine engines, propulsion system-airframe integration, turbomachinery, internal flow and fluid machinery, propulsion, active control...

Automatic control, control of helicopter rotors, acoustic control

Air transportation, instrumentation, flight safety, aviation meteorology, flight information systems, air traffic control

Fluid dynamics: unsteady aerodynamics, aeroacoustics; rotorcraft technology; economic incentives: defense systems acquisition, lean...

Aircraft configuration design, composite manufacturing, convex optimization, operations research

Human space flight operations, space flight technology, human-machine interactions, extravehicular activity, conducting laboratory research...

Navigation and control; design and implementation of distributed robust planning algorithms to coordinate multiple autonomous vehicles in...

Robotics, motion planning and control, verification and automated synthesis of embedded systems, autonomous vehicles, robotic networks

Space propulsion, electrospray thrusters, micro and nano-fabrication, space mission design, small satellite technology development, ion...

Space Propulsion, Fluid Physics, Space Systems

Computational science and engineering, computational statistics. Uncertainty quantification, inverse problems, data assimilation. Energy and...

REXIS (REgolith X-ray Imaging Spectrometer), dynamics and controls, integrated modeling, control structure interactions, systems engineering

Human-machine interaction, deep ocean robotics, archaeology in the deep ocean, history of aviation and spaceflight, social implications of...

Data communication, satellite and hybrid networks, high-speed networks

Aerospace human factors and physiology, human-machine interfaces, manual and supervisory control, aircraft systems and automation, space...

Computational Solid Mechanics and Fluid, Structure Interaction, Mechanics of Materials, Multiscale Modeling and Simulation, High-Performance...

Robotics, machine learning, autonomous systems, planning and reasoning, human-computer interaction, micro air vehicles

Autonomous systems, human-robot collaboration, AI planning and scheduling, interactive robotics for aerospace, medical, and manufacturing.

Propulsion and energy conversion, internal flows in fluid machinery, compressor aerodynamics and stability, micro-fluidics and rotordynamics...

computational dynamics, system automation, human factors, experimental biomechanics, human-machine interaction for aerospace and medical...

Unsteady and three-dimensional flow in turbomachinery and propulsive devices; aerodynamic instabilities in aircraft gas turbine engines;...

Engineering design of chaotic dynamical systems, unsteady aerodynamics and turbulence, numerical methods for exascale computation, design...

Nano-engineered composites, composite and layered materials; hybrid nanocomposite systems; MEMS power devices and energy harvesting;...

Boundary layer stability, unsteady hydrodynamic loads on fully wetted and supercavitating hydrofoils of finite span, unsteady lifting...

Professor Williams leads the Model-based Embedded and Robotic Systems group, within the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence...

Bioastronautics, aerospace human factors, long duration space flight, artificial gravity