Topical Advisory Panel

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Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, New Territories, Hong Kong
Interests: surrogate modeling; aircraft design and mission analysis; air transportation; data-enhanced modeling; variable-fidelity analysis; multidisciplinary design and optimization; computational modeling for complex systems; machine learning and data analytics
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Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA
Interests: optimal control; convex optimization; machine learning; guidance, navigation, and control; space systems; aerial vehicles; connected vehicles
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Department of Aerospace Engineering, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS 39762, USA
Interests: receptivity and transition in boundary layers; boundary layer control; theoretical and computational aeroacoustics; turbulence in fluids
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Department of Aerospace Science and Technology, Politecnico di Milano, 20156 Milano, Italy
Interests: aircraft design; electric propulsion; hydrogen propulsion; flight testing

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Department of Aerospace Science and Technology, Politecnico di Milano, Via La Masa 34, 20156 Milano, Italy
Interests: electric aircraft; hybrid-electric aircraft; hydrogen-powered aircraft; aircraft preliminary design; airship; LTA; aerospace sensors and systems; aerospace instrumentation systems; UAS; flight testing
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Department of Bioengineering and Aeroespace Engineering, University Carlos III de Madrid, 28903 Madrid, Spain
Interests: trajectory optimization; space debris; uncertainty propagation; space tether; optimal control; guidance and control; mission analysis; applications for space missions
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Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, ON K7K 7B4, Canada
Interests: aerospace vehicles analysis, design, and optimization; multi-disciplinary analysis and optimization methods; flight dynamics, control and navigation; autonomous soaring; systems of systems analysis and optimization; numerical optimization theory and applications; trajectory design and optimization

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School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Beihang University, Beijing 100083, China
Interests: aerospace actuation system design, control and simulation

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Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica e Aerospaziale, Politecnico di Torino, 10129 Torino, Italy
Interests: flight mechanics of fixed and rotary wing aircraft; flight simulation; design of human-machine interfaces for robotics; development and testing of unmanned aerial systems; planning and mission control for autonomous systems; design of guidance, control and navigation systems for aircraft and spacecraft

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Department of Aerospace Engineering, Sejong University, Seoul 143-741, Republic of Korea
Interests: space propulsion; satellite system; thermal engineering; CFD; inverse heat transfer analysis; rarefied flow
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Department of Avionics and Control Systems, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics, Rzeszow University of Technology, al. Powstanców Warszawy 8, 35-959 Rzeszow, Poland
Interests: avionics; measurement systems; data bus; CAN; flight data recorders; monitoring; data analysis; wavelet; fourier transform; STFT; pilot-induced oscillations; unmanned air vehicles
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Aerospace Sciences Department, Engineering Faculty, University of Beira Interior, 6200-358 Covilhã, Portugal
Interests: applied aerodynamics; aircraft aerodynamics; propulsion and performance
Space Systems Dynamics Department, Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (KIAM RAS), Moscow, Russia
Interests: spaceflight dynamics; attitude control systems for small satellites; magnetic attitude control systems; artificial intelligence systems for motion control; sliding control
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Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Interests: microsystems; micro-robots; piezoelectric actuators; piezoelectric harvesters; bioinspiration; biomimetics; biomechanics, fluid dynamics, aerodynamics
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CCTAE, IDMEC, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Av. Rovisco Pais, No. 1, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal
Interests: aeroacoustics; morphing structures; aircraft design
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Department of Aerospace Engineering and Aviation, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
Interests: aviation safety; safety management systems; accident investigation; aircraft structural integrity; aerospace materials

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Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, Via Claudio, 21, 80125 Naples, Italy
Interests: aircraft design; flight mechanics; aircraft performance, stability, and control; CFD for applied aerodynamics; wind tunnel testing
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Bristol Composites Institute, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Bristol, Queen’s Building, University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK
Interests: experimental mechanics; FRP composites; non-destructive evaluation; self-sensing; micromechanics; composite manufacturing
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Department of Mechanical Engineering, York University, Toronto, ON M3J1P3, Canada
Interests: dynamics and control of tethered spacecraft system; model predictive control strategy; state identification and estimation; novel concept of space structure; solid mechanics and finite element method

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Department of Mechanical & Material Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33174, USA
Interests: aeroelasticity; aeroelastic design of flying wing aircraft; design with constructal theories; evolutionary design; nature; structural dynamics; structural mechanics.

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Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering, University of Tennessee, Tullahoma, TN 37388, USA
Interests: hypersonic air-breathing propulsion; hypersonic signature modeling; scramjet unstart; hypersonic boundary-layer transition; uncertainty quantification for high-fidelity CFD; reduced dimensional models for high-speed applications; reacting flow modeling; rocket propulsion

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Department of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
Interests: aeroacoustic; fan noise; noise control; duct acoustics

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Temasek Laboratories, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117411, Singapore
Interests: detonation physics; propulsion; plasma actuator for flow control
School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 201100, China
Interests: heat transfer; gas turbine cooling; aerodynamics; turbulent flow; heat exchanger
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Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong 999077, China
Interests: flow control; flow instability; thermoacoustics; combustion dynamics; aerodynamics; propulsion; atomization; sprays; heat transfer; nonlinear dynamics; complex systems

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Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
Interests: oblique detonation engine; detonative propulsion; supersonic combustion; scramjets; high-enthalpy shock tunnel; high-temperature gasdynamics; hypersonic aerodynamics and aerothermal dynamics
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School of Aviation and Security, Buckinghamshire New University, Buckinghamshire HP11 2JZ, UK
Interests: air transport economics; strategy; management; operations and planning

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School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116023, China
Interests: aircraft structural dynamics; aircraft design; aeroelasticity
Professor, National Key Lab. of Science and Technology on Aerodynamic Design and Research, School of Aeronautics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, China
Interests: surrogate modeling and efficient global optimization algorithm; aerodynamic and multidisciplinary design optimization of aircraft; multi-fidelity data fusion and aerodynamic modeling; sonic-boom prediction and low-boom design for supersonic aircraft; aerodynamic design optimization of wide-speed-range aircraft configuration; transition prediction and natural-laminar-flow airfoil/wing design
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Professor of Design Optimisation, University of Southampton, Southampton SO16 7QF, UK
Interests: aircraft design; multidisciplinary design optimization
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