UROP Supervisors

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

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

Peter P. Belobaba
Air transportation economics and operations analysis; airline pricing and revenue management; airline and aerospace industry analysis

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

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

David L. Darmofal
Computational fluid dynamics, numerical analysis, probabilistic design, engineering education

Olivier de Weck
Aerospace systems, engineering systems, technology roadmapping and development, multidisciplinary design optimization

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

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

Steven R. Hall
Automatic control, control of helicopter rotors, acoustic control

R. John Hansman
Air transportation, instrumentation, flight safety, aviation meteorology, flight information systems, air traffic control

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

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

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

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

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

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

Manuel Martinez-Sanchez
Space Propulsion, Fluid Physics, Space Systems

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

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

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

Eytan H. Modiano
Data communication, satellite and hybrid networks, high-speed networks

Charles M. Oman
Aerospace human factors and physiology, human-machine interfaces, manual and supervisory control, aircraft systems and automation, space...
Raul Radovitzky
Computational Solid Mechanics and Fluid, Structure Interaction, Mechanics of Materials, Multiscale Modeling and Simulation, High-Performance...

Nicholas Roy
Robotics, machine learning, autonomous systems, planning and reasoning, human-computer interaction, micro air vehicles
Alvar Saenz-Otero

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

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

Leia Stirling
computational dynamics, system automation, human factors, experimental biomechanics, human-machine interaction for aerospace and medical...
Choon Sooi Tan
Unsteady and three-dimensional flow in turbomachinery and propulsive devices; aerodynamic instabilities in aircraft gas turbine engines;...

Russell Tedrake

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

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

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

Karen E. Willcox
Reduced-order modeling, uncertainty quantification, multidisciplinary design optimization, aircraft system design, data to decisions in...

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

Laurence R. Young
Bioastronautics, aerospace human factors, long duration space flight, artificial gravity