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DR. SIVA S. BANDA
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Dr. Siva S. Banda, a member of the scientific and professional cadre of senior executives, is Chief Scientist, Air Vehicles Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. He serves as the principal scientific and technical advisor to the director and is the primary authority for the technical content of the directorate's science and technology portfolio. The directorate leads and conducts research, exploratory and advanced development in aerospace structures, flight control, vehicle aerodynamics, flight vehicle integration and flight demonstration. Technology thrusts in the directorate include: hypersonic flight and space access, autonomous air vehicles, sustainment and energy efficient aircraft.
Dr. Banda joined the Flight Dynamics Laboratory in 1981 as an aerospace research engineer in the Flight Controls Division. His multi-faceted technical activities at the AFRL and its predecessors have included serving as an in-house researcher, task team leader, group leader, program manager, branch chief, consultant, mentor and technical leader for basic research in flight control systems. He has made pioneering and lasting contributions to robust multivariable control theory, on-line system identification, reconfigurable flight control and the use of adaptive guidance and control for hypersonic and reusable space access vehicles. Most recently, he has been an aggressive advocate for, and established, cooperative control as the key to making autonomously-operating unmanned air vehicles an integral part of tomorrow's airspace.
The author of over 200 technical papers, reports and books, two patents, and more than 120 invited lectures worldwide, Dr. Banda has dedicated his personal technical career to advancing the frontiers of control science and ensuring that the US Air Force and aerospace industry possess the cutting-edge flight control solutions essential to fielding revolutionary air and space platforms for both military and commercial applications. He was appointed the USAF Senior Scientist for Control Theory in 1999 and the Air Vehicles Chief Scientist in 2011.
EDUCATION
1974 Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering, Regional Engineering College, Warangal, India
1976 Master of Science degree in aerospace engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
1978 Master of Science degree in systems engineering, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio
1980 Doctor of Philosophy degree in aerospace engineering, University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio
CAREER CHRONOLOGY
1. 1981 - 1986, Aerospace research engineer, Flight Controls Division, Flight Dynamics Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio
2. 1986 - 1987, Group leader, Flight Dynamics Directorate, Wright Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio
3. 1981 - 1989, Adjunct Professor, Departments of Mathematics and Electrical Engineering, Wright State University and Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio
4. 1987 - 1995, Task team leader, Flight Dynamics Directorate, Wright Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio
5. 1995 - 1996, Branch chief and Program Manager, Flight Dynamics Directorate, Wright Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio
6. 1996 - 2000, Technical leader, Air Vehicles Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio
7. 2000 - 2011, Senior Scientist for Control Theory and Director of the Control Science Center of Excellence, Air Vehicles Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio
8. 2011 - present, Chief Scientist, Air Vehicles Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio
AWARDS AND HONORS
1987 General Benjamin D. Foulois Award, Flight Dynamics Laboratory
1990 Fellow, Air Force Research Laboratory
1993 - 1995 Star Team Award, Air Force Office of Scientific Research
1994 Best Paper Award, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
1999 Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
2000 Control Systems Technology Award, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
2000 - 2005 Star Team Award, Air Force Office of Scientific Research
2001 Silver Medal, Royal Aeronautical Society
2001 Plenary Speaker, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
2002 Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
2002 Board of Governors, IEEE Control Systems Society
2002 General Chairman, AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference
2004 National Academy of Engineering
2004 Meritorious Senior Professional Presidential Rank Award
2009 Distinguished Senior Professional Presidential Rank Award
2010 Fellow, International Federation of Automatic Control
2011 Nathaniel Nichols Medal, International Federation of Automatic Control
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND ASSOCIATIONS
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics - AIAA (Fellow)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers - IEEE (Fellow)
International Federation of Automatic Control - IFAC (Fellow)
NATO Research and Technology Organization - RTO (Panel Member)
The Technical Cooperation Program - TTCP (Group Member)
Editorial Board, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control
Advisory Board, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
Board of Visitors, Office of Naval Research
Peer Review Board, Army Research Office
Advisory Board, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California
Advisory Board, College of Engineering and Computer Science, University of Central Florida
(Current as of August 2011)
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