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Solicitation round

67 organizations in Round 9

  • California State University--Long Beach

    AANAPISIHSI

    Seeking: Partner

    Point of contact
    Cody Karcher, Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

    Research interests

    Topic 1: Safe, Efficient Growth in Global Operations Topic 2: Innovation in Commercial High-Speed Aircraft Topic 3: Ultra-Efficient Subsonic Transports Topic 4: Safe, Quiet, and Affordable Vertical Lift Air Vehicles Expertise: optimization methods and applications, aircraft systems design, mathematical and surrogate modeling, aircraft geometry modeling, software integration, uncertainty quantification and propagation, flight and experimental testing

  • Robust Analytics, Inc.

    Seeking: Partner

    Point of contact
    Peter Kostiuk, President

    Research interests

    Topic 1: Safe, Efficient Growth in Global Operations Topic 5: In-Time System-Wide Safety Assurance Topic 6: Assured Autonomy for Aviation Transformation

  • ResilienX Inc.

    Seeking: Partner

    Point of contact
    Ryan Pleskach, COO

    Research interests

    Topic 1: Safe, Efficient Growth in Global Operations Topic 5: In-Time System-Wide Safety Assurance Topic 6: Assured Autonomy for Aviation Transformation Expertise: productizing safety assurance solutions for highly automated and autonomous ecosystems, and leading design and development efforts for AAM ecosystems

  • The Pennsylvania State University

    Seeking: Partner

    Point of contact
    Ashwin Renganathan, Ph.D., Assistant Professor

    Research interests

    Topic 3: Ultra-Efficient Subsonic Transports Topic 4: Safe, Quiet, and Affordable Vertical Lift Air Vehicles Expertise: aerospace systems design

  • North Carolina A&T State University

    Seeking: Partner

    Point of contact
    Gurcan Comert, Associate Professor, Computational Data Science and Engineering Departmen
    Contact email
    gcomert@ncat.edu

    Research interests

    Topic 1: Safe, Efficient Growth in Global Operations Topic 2: Innovation in Commercial High-Speed Aircraft Topic 3: Ultra-Efficient Subsonic Transports Topic 4: Safe, Quiet, and Affordable Vertical Lift Air Vehicles Topic 5: In-Time System-Wide Safety Assurance Topic 6: Assured Autonomy for Aviation Transformation

  • California State University Long Beach

    Seeking: Lead-and-Partner

    Point of contact
    Eun Jung Chae, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

    Research interests

    Topic 2: Innovation in Commercial High-Speed Aircraft Topic 3: Ultra-Efficient Subsonic Transports Topic 4: Safe, Quiet, And Affordable Vertical Lift Air Vehicles

  • University of Alabama

    Seeking: Lead-and-Partner

    Point of contact
    Jiaqi Gong, Director, Alabama Center for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
    Contact email
    jiaqi.gong@ua.edu

    Research interests

    Topic 5: In-Time System-Wide Safety Assurance

  • Delaware State University

    Seeking: Lead-and-Partner

    Point of contact
    Devdeep Maity, Associate Professor Of Marketing
    Contact email
    dmaity@desu.edu

    Research interests

    Topic 1: Safe, Efficient Growth in Global Operations (Specifically interested in regional air mobility, AAM integration into the National Airspace System, Alternative Fuels, and Multimodal transportation system, data analytics in AAM) Topic 4: Safe, Quiet, And Affordable Vertical Lift Air Vehicles (Specifically interested in planning and design of Vertiports, site selection, public acceptance, Advanced Air Mobility, AAM Infrastructure, and AAM integration with local communities) Advanced Air Mobility, Vertiport Planning and Design

  • Old Dominion University

    Seeking: Lead-and-Partner

    Point of contact
    Khan Iftekharuddin, Professor and University Eminent Scholar, Batten Endowed Chair in Machine Learning, Director, Vision Lab | Inaugural Director, Institute of Data Science, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
    Contact email
    kiftekha@odu.edu

    Research interests

    Topic 6: Assured Autonomy for Aviation Transformation Topic 5: In-Time System-Wide Safety Assurance

  • University of Houston-Clear Lake (Primarily Undergraduate Institution)

    MSIHSI

    Seeking: Partner

    Point of contact
    Kazi Md Masum Billah, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
    Contact email
    billah@uhcl.edu

    Research interests

    Topic 2: Innovation in Commercial High-Speed Aircraft Topic 3: Ultra-Efficient Subsonic Transports Topic 4: Safe, Quiet, and Affordable Vertical Lift Air Vehicles Research Expertise: Additive Manufacturing, 3D Printing of Metal and Polymer. Fiber reinforced Composite Manufacturing – Thermoset and Thermoplastics, Ceramics Manufacturing and Characterization, Direct Energy Deposition Additive Manufacturing

  • Oklahoma State University

    Seeking: Lead-and-Partner

    Point of contact
    Sicheng Kevin Li, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
    Contact email
    sicli@okstate.edu

    Research interests

    Topic 4: Safe, Quiet, and Affordable Vertical Lift Air Vehicles Topic 6: Assured Autonomy for Aviation Transformation Expertise: unsteady aerodynamics, aeroacoustics, anechoic chamber, flight noise measurements, PIV/LDV measurements, AAM design and prototyping.

  • The University of Texas at El Paso (R1 institution)

    MSIHSI

    Seeking: Lead-and-Partner

    Point of contact
    Shian Wang, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
    Contact email
    swang14@utep.edu

    Research interests

    Topic 1: Safe, Efficient Growth in Global Operations Topic 4: Safe, Quiet, and Affordable Vertical Lift Air Vehicles Topic 5: In-Time System-Wide Safety Assurance Topic 6: Assured Autonomy for Aviation Transformation Expertise: control systems, optimization, urban air mobility systems, electrification

  • NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

    Seeking: Partner

    Point of contact
    Alessandro Pinto, Autonomy Assurance Lead
    Contact email
    apinto@jpl.nasa.gov

    Research interests

    Topic 6: Assured Autonomy for Aviation Transformation

  • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Seeking: Lead-and-Partner

    Point of contact
    Melkior Ornik, Aerospace Engineering
    Contact email
    mornik@illinois.edu

    Research interests

    Thrust 5: In-Time System-Wide Safety Assurance Thrust 6: Assured Autonomy for Aviation Transformation

  • Mississippi State University

    Seeking: Lead-and-Partner

    Point of contact
    Chuangchuang Sun, Assistant Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, https://sites.google.com/view/sun-research-lab/home
    Contact email
    csun@ae.msstate.edu

    Research interests

    Topic 4: Safe, Quiet, and Affordable Vertical Lift Air Vehicles Topic 5: In-Time System-Wide Safety Assurance Topic 6: Assured Autonomy for Aviation Transformation

  • Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach

    Seeking: Partner

    Point of contact
    Mark Ricklick, Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering, Gas Turbine Laboratory Director

    Research interests

    Topic 2: Innovation in commercial High-Speed Aircraft Topic 3: Ultra-Efficient Subsonic Transports Expertise: Computational and Experimental heat transfer and thermal management. Design and analysis of novel heat exchangers and thermal management systems. Gas turbine cooling design and analysis.

  • Stanford University

    Seeking: Partner

    Point of contact
    Somil Bansal, Assistant Professor, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
    Contact email
    somil@stanford.edu

    Research interests

    Topic 6: Assured Autonomy for Aviation Transformation

  • RTX Technology Research Center

    Seeking: Partner

    Point of contact
    Michael Joly

    Research interests

    Topic 2: Innovation in Commercial High-Speed Aircraft Topic 3: Ultra-Efficient Subsonic Transports Topic 4: Safe, Quiet, and Affordable Vertical Lift Air Vehicles

  • Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

    Seeking: Partner

    Point of contact
    Luis Ferrer-Vidal, Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering
    Contact email
    ferrervl@erau.edu

    Research interests

    Topic 2: Innovation in commercial High-Speed Aircraft Topic 3: Ultra-Efficient Subsonic Transports Expertise: Gas turbine performance modeling (NPSS and similar tools). Turbomachinery performance, design, and aerodynamics.

  • Honeywell Aerospace Technologies

    Seeking: Partner

    Point of contact
    Nichola Lubold, PhD, Lead Research Scientist

    Research interests

    Topic 1: Safe, Efficient Growth in Global Operations Topic 2: Innovation in Commercial High-Speed Aircraft Topic 3: Ultra-Efficient Subsonic Transports Topic 4: Safe, Quiet, and Affordable Vertical Lift Air Vehicles Topic 5: In-Time System-Wide Safety Assurance Topic 6: Assured Autonomy for Aviation Transformation Expertise: human factors, automated and autonomous systems design and implementation, aircraft systems design and implementation, safety assurance, alternative fuels, ground control stations, urban air mobility

  • Autonomy Research Center for STEAHM (ARCS) at California State University Northridge (CSUN)

    Seeking: Lead-and-Partner

    Point of contact
    Nhut Ho, ARCS Director and Professor
    Contact email
    nhuttho@csun.edu

    Research interests

    Topic 5: In-Time System-Wide Safety Assurance Topic 6: Assured Autonomy for Aviation Transformation

  • Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech)

    Seeking: Partner

    Point of contact
    William Devenport
    Contact email
    wdevenpo@vt.edu

    Research interests

    Topic 3: Ultra-Efficient Subsonic Transports Topic 4: Safe, Quiet, and Affordable Vertical Lift Air Vehicles Expertise: Experimental Aeroacoustics and Aerodynamics, large scale facility aeroacoustic and aerodynamic testing.

  • University of Michigan

    Seeking: Lead-and-Partner

    Point of contact
    Krzysztof Fidkowski, Professor of Aerospace Engineering
    Contact email
    kfid@umich.edu

    Research interests

    Topic 3: Ultra-Efficient Subsonic Transports Topic 4: Safe, Quiet, and Affordable Vertical Lift Air Vehicles Expertise: computational fluid dynamics, high-order methods, uncertainty quantification, error estimation, aerodynamics, reduced-order modeling

  • Iowa State University

    Seeking: Lead-and-Partner

    Point of contact
    Sougata Roy, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
    Contact email
    sroy@iastate.edu

    Research interests

    Topic 1: Safe, Efficient Growth in Global Operations Topic 2: Innovation in Commercial High-Speed Aircraft Topic 3: Ultra-Efficient Subsonic Transports Topic 4: Safe, Quiet, and Affordable Vertical Lift Air Vehicles Research Expertise: Metal Additive Manufacturing, Electrified Tribology (study of friction, wear, and lubrication), Gear and bearing failures under electrified conditions, Coatings, Material characterization.

  • CNA Corporation

    Seeking: Partner

    Point of contact
    Addam Jordan, Chief Scientist
    Contact email
    jordana@cna.org

    Research interests

    Topic 1: Safe, Efficient Growth in Global Operations Topic 2: Innovation in Commercial High-Speed Aircraft Topic 3: Ultra-Efficient Subsonic Transport Topic 4: Safe, Quiet, and Affordable Vertical Lift Air Vehicles Topic 5: In-Time System-Wide Safety Assurance Topic 6: Assured Autonomy for Aviation Transformation Expertise: Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) operations. Info-Centric NAS. UTM Operations. UAM Operations. Research and development of concepts and innovative approaches. Secure communications, navigation, surveillance, and information infrastructure requirements and messaging exchange. Software assurance of safety critical software. Validation of cloud and edge architectures. Machine Learning (ML)/Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabled NAS operations. Modeling, Simulation, Validation and Test. ML/AI computational, ML/AI experiments, and analytical tools. Safety Risk Identification and Evaluation.

  • Rutgers University

    Seeking: Lead-and-Partner

    Point of contact
    Joseph Cohen, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

    Research interests

    Topic 5: In-Time System-Wide Safety Assurance Expertise: anomaly detection, prognostics and health management, explainable machine learning

  • University of Virginia

    Seeking: Lead-and-Partner

    Point of contact
    Xinfeng Gao, Professor of Aerospace Engineering
    Contact email
    x.gao@virginia.edu

    Research interests

    Topic 2: Innovation in Commercial High-Speed Aircraft Topic 4: Safe, Quiet, and Affordable Vertical Lift Air Vehicles Expertise: Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) for High-Speed Flows, High Performance Computing (HPC) for Hypersonics, Data Assimilation

  • Clark Atlanta University

    HBCU

    Seeking: Partner

    Point of contact
    Kishor Datta Gupta, Assistant Professor, Department of Cyber-Physical Systems
    Contact email
    kgupta@cau.edu

    Research interests

    Topic 6: Assured Autonomy for Aviation Transformation Expertise: Applied machine learning and artificial intelligence for data-driven modeling, analysis, and optimization

  • Boeing Research & Technology

    Point of contact
    Abdollah Khodadoust

    Research interests

    Topic 1: Safe, Efficient Growth in Global Operations Topic 2: Innovation in Commercial High-Speed Aircraft Topic 3: Ultra-Efficient Subsonic Transport Topic 4: Safe, Quiet, and Affordable Vertical Lift Air Vehicles Topic 5: In-Time System-Wide Safety Assurance Topic 6: Assured Autonomy for Aviation Transformation

  • Florida International University

    HSI

    Seeking: Lead-and-Partner

    Point of contact
    Dr. Mohammd Ashiqur Rahman, Associate Professor, Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences
    Contact email
    marahman@fiu.edu

    Research interests

    Topic 4: Safe, Quiet, and Affordable Vertical Lift Air Vehicles Topic 5: In-Time System-Wide Safety Assurance Topic 6: Assured Autonomy for Aviation Transformation Applied machine learning and artificial intelligence for data-driven modeling, analysis, and optimization

  • Elizabeth City State University

    Seeking: Partner

    Point of contact
    Mohamed Elbakary
    Contact email
    melbakary@ecsu.edu

    Research interests

    Research Interests: Image Processing, Computer Vision, Detection and Tracking, UAV Automation, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning.

  • Cleveland State University

    Seeking: Lead-and-Partner

    Point of contact
    Navid Goudarzi, Ph.D. PI, Multiscale Multiphysics Modeling and Data-Driven Analysis of Thermofluids (M3TFluiD) Lab (M³TFluidLab)

    Research interests

    Topic 1: Safe, Efficient Growth in Global Operations Topic 2: Innovation in Commercial High-Speed Aircraft Topic 3: Ultra-Efficient Subsonic Transports Topic 4: Safe, Quiet, and Affordable Vertical Lift Air Vehicles Topic 5: In-Time System-Wide Safety Assurance Topic 6: Assured Autonomy for Aviation Transformation Expertise: Development of multi-fidelity CFD and ROM frameworks for aerodynamic and thermal modeling, physics-informed ML for scalable digital twin applications, and data-driven tools for real-time flow prediction, autonomy integration, and system-level analysis in AAM and vertical lift systems.

  • MIT Lincoln Laboratory

    Seeking: Partner

    Point of contact
    Matt Edwards, Assistant Group Leader, Air Traffic Control Mission Area, Transportation Safety & Resilience Group Group https://www.ll.mit.edu/r-d/air-traffic-control

    Research interests

    Topic 1: Safe, Efficient Growth in Global Operations Topic 5: In-Time System-Wide Safety Assurance Topic 6: Assured Autonomy for Aviation Transformation For traditional operations and new airspace entrants (UAS/UAM): Aircraft and weather surveillance Collision avoidance and conflict management algorithms Operations planning optimization Human-machine teaming and decision support Large-scale modeling and simulation Prototyping and flight test Cybersecurity

  • University of Texas at Austin

    Seeking: Lead-and-Partner

    Point of contact
    Thinh Doan, Assistant Professor - Aerospace Engineering

    Research interests

    Thrust 5: In-Time System-Wide Safety Assurance Thrust 6: Assured Autonomy for Aviation Transformation

  • University of Minnesota

    Seeking: Lead-and-Partner

    Point of contact
    Suo Yang
    Contact email
    suo-yang@umn.edu

    Research interests

    Topic 2: Innovation in Commercial Supersonic Aircraft (Strategic Thrust 2) Topic 3: Ultra-Efficient Subsonic Transports (Strategic Thrust 3) Expertise: Multiphysics modeling and CFD simulation of turbulent reacting and multiphase flows, high-pressure liquid-fueled propulsion (based on deflagration or detonation) for high efficiency, plasma assisted combustion/reforming to mitigate thermoacoustic instability, sonic boom prediction and control, multi-fidelity digital twin for propulsion control, modeling of soot and NOx.

  • University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

    Seeking: Lead-and-Partner

    Point of contact
    Neelakshi Majumdar, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering (Aerospace Systems Concentration) https://www.neelakshi-majumdar.com
    Contact email
    neelm@uark.edu

    Research interests

    Topic 1: Safe, Efficient Growth in Global Operations: systems engineering, aviation operations, data analysis, Advanced Air Mobility, sustainable and resilient aerospace systems Topic 5: In-Time System-Wide Safety Assurance: Risk analysis, safety management, accident data analysis, human factors, aviation training machine learning Topic 6: Assured Autonomy for Aviation Transformation: System safety, security, Advanced Air Mobility (AAM), AAM integration into the National Airspace System (NAS)

  • University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK)

    Seeking: Lead-and-Partner

    Point of contact
    Zhenbo Wang, Associate Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
    Contact email
    zwang124@utk.edu

    Research interests

    Topic 1: Safe, Efficient Growth in Global Operations Topic 4: Safe, Quiet, and Affordable Vertical Lift Air Vehicles Topic 5: In-Time System-Wide Safety Assurance Topic 6: Assured Autonomy for Aviation Transformation

  • Johns Hopkins University

    Seeking: Partner

    Point of contact
    Abhishek Cauligi, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
    Contact email
    cauligi@jhu.edu

    Research interests

    Topic 5: In-Time System-Wide Safety Assurance Topic 6: Assured Autonomy for Aviation Transformation

  • Louisiana State University

    Seeking: Lead-and-Partner

    Point of contact
    Aly Mousaad Aly, Ph.D., PE, Associate Professor, WISE Research Group, https://faculty.lsu.edu/aly/
    Contact email
    aly@lsu.edu

    Research interests

    Topic 1: Safe, Efficient Growth in Global Operations Topic 2: Innovation in Commercial High-Speed Aircraft Topic 3: Ultra-Efficient Subsonic Transports Topic 4: Safe, Quiet, and Affordable Vertical Lift Air Vehicles Topic 5: In-Time System-Wide Safety Assurance Topic 6: Assured Autonomy for Aviation Transformation Expertise: Wind tunnel testing, Unsteady Aerodynamics, Turbulence, Multi-Fidelity CFD Modeling, Physics-Informed ML for Accelerated CFD Simulations

  • University of Nebraska Omaha

    Seeking: Partner

    Point of contact
    Chenyu Huang, Associate Professor, Aviation Institute

    Research interests

    Topic 1: Safe, Efficient Growth in Global Operations Topic 4: Safe, Quiet, and Affordable Vertical Lift Air Vehicles Topic 5: In-Time System-Wide Safety Assurance Topic 6: Assured Autonomy for Aviation Transformation Expertise: computer vision, machine learning, artificial intelligence applications for aviation safety enhancement and operation optimization, data-based aviation safety and risk analysis, aeronautical infrastructure resilience modeling and sustainability, uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS) integration, non-towered airport operations and vicinity airspace operations, safety management systems (SMS), remote sensing and geospatial data analysis, real-time object detection and tracking, advanced air mobility (AAM)

  • Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Daytona Beach

    Seeking: Partner

    Point of contact
    Chuyang Yang, Assistant Professor of Graduate Studies, College of Aviation
    Contact email
    yangc11@erau.edu

    Research interests

    Topic 1: Safe, Efficient Growth in Global Operations Topic 4: Safe, Quiet, and Affordable Vertical Lift Air Vehicles Topic 5: In-Time System-Wide Safety Assurance Topic 6: Assured Autonomy for Aviation Transformation Expertise: aviation safety and risk modeling, uncrewed aerial systems (UAS) integration, machine learning (ML) and generative AI for safety-critical applications and human factor analysis, airport/vertiport operations and noise assessment, safety management systems (SMS), autonomous system perception and testing, real-time object detection and tracking, advanced air mobility (AAM)

  • Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

    Seeking: Lead-and-Partner

    Point of contact
    Ashwini Gangadharan, Associate Professor of Management, Department of Business Administration, College of Business

    Research interests

    Strategic Thrust 1: Safe, Efficient Growth in Global Operations Strategic Thrust 2: Innovation in Commercial High-Speed Aircraft Strategic Thrust 4: Safe, Quiet, and Affordable Vertical Lift Air Vehicles Strategic Thrust 6: Assured Autonomy for Aviation Transformation Expertise: I am especially focused on the behavioral, technological, and infrastructure dimensions of these thrusts, with a strong emphasis on sustainable aviation ecosystems, conscious leadership, and advanced mobility solutions.

  • University of Oklahoma

    Seeking: Partner

    Point of contact
    Mohammed Atiquzzaman, Gaylord Presidential Professor, Hitachi Chair Professor, School of Computer Science
    Contact email
    atiq@ou.edu

    Research interests

    Topic 2: Innovation in Commercial High-Speed Aircraft Topic 4: Safe, Quiet, and Affordable Vertical Lift Air Vehicles

  • University of Louisiana at Lafayette

    Seeking: Lead-and-Partner

    Point of contact
    Boyang Zhang, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering

    Research interests

    Topic 1: Safe, Efficient Growth in Global Operations Topic 4: Safe, Quiet, and Affordable Vertical Lift Air Vehicles Topic 5: In-Time System-Wide Safety Assurance Topic 6: Assured Autonomy for Aviation Transformation

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Seeking: Lead-and-Partner

    Point of contact
    Ngoc Nguyen, Principal Research Scientist Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
    Contact email
    cuongng@mit.edu

    Research interests

    Topic 2: Innovation in Commercial High-Speed Aircraft Topic 3: Ultra-Efficient Subsonic Transports Topic 4: Safe, Quiet, and Affordable Vertical Lift Air Vehicles Expertise: computational fluid dynamics, aerodynamics, aero-thermodynamics, high-order methods, reduced-order modeling, and GPU computing.

  • Southwest Research Institute (SwRI)

    Seeking: Partner

    Point of contact
    Alex Cho
    Contact email
    alex.cho@swri.org

    Research interests

    Topic 2: Innovation in Commercial High-Speed Aircraft Topic 3: Ultra-Efficient Subsonic Transports Topic 4: Safe, Quiet, and Affordable Vertical Lift Air Vehicles Expertise: Gas turbine engines, Engine testing, Combustion, Emissions, Chemical kinetics, Fuel production, Industrial-scale testing, Jet propulsion testing, 1D modeling (NPSS), Turbomachinery, Rotor dynamics, Materials science and engineering

  • Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach

    Seeking: Partner

    Point of contact
    Luke Hill, Research Assistant Professor Department of Aerospace Engineering
    Contact email
    HILLJ37@erau.edu

    Research interests

    Topic 2: Innovation in Commercial High-Speed Aircraft Expertise: hypersonics, wind tunnel testing, optical diagnostics, experimental testing

  • Georgia Institute of Technology

    Seeking: Lead-and-Partner

    Point of contact
    Suhas S. Jain, Assistant Professor

    Research interests

    Topic 2: Innovation in Commercial High-Speed Aircraft (Strategic Thrust 2) Topic 3: Ultra-Efficient Subsonic Transports (Strategic Thrust 3) Topic 4: Safe, Quiet, and Affordable Vertical Lift Air Vehicles (Strategic Thrust 4) Expertise: CFD, turbulent flows and aerodynamics, multiphase flow, particle-laden flows, aircraft icing simulations, atomization, sprays, and phase change modeling for high-speed propulsion applications

  • University of Wisconsin, Madison

    Seeking: Partner

    Point of contact
    Prateek Jaiswal, Assistant Professor
    Contact email
    pjaiswal2@wisc.edu

    Research interests

    Topic 3: Ultra-Efficient Subsonic Transports Topic 4: Safe, Quiet, and Affordable Vertical Lift Air Vehicles Expertise: Experimental, computational and analytical Aeroacoustics and unsteady Aerodynamics at high Reynolds numbers.

  • University of Florida

    Seeking: Partner

    Point of contact
    Lawrence Ukeiley, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
    Contact email
    ukeiley@ufl.edu

    Research interests

    Topic 2: Innovation in Commercial High-Speed Aircraft Topic 3: Ultra-Efficient Subsonic Transports Topic 4: Safe, Quiet, and Affordable Vertical Lift Air Vehicles, Expertise in Aeroacoustics and flow control

  • Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach Eagle Flight Research Center

    Seeking: Partner

    Point of contact
    Kyle Collins Research Assistant Professor Director, Eagle Flight Research Center

    Research interests

    Topic 4: Safe, Quiet, and Affordable Vertical Lift Air Vehicles Expertise: Aerospace Systems Design and Optimization Rotary Wing Aeromechanics Flight Dynamics and Control Simplified Flight Controls Mathematical Model/Simulation Development Prototype Design, Build, and Fly Flight Control Development and Implementation (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a90ImGE6j4M)

  • The Innovation Laboratory, Inc.

    Seeking: Partner

    Point of contact
    Jimmy Krozel, Chief Scientist

    Research interests

    Topic 1: Safe, Efficient Growth in Global Operations Topic 5: In-Time System-Wide Safety Assurance Topic 6: Assured Autonomy for Aviation Transformation

  • California State University, Fresno (R2 institution)

    MSI

    Seeking: Partner

    Point of contact
    Xiangxiong Kong, Assistant Professor Lyles College of Engineering

    Research interests

    Topic 1: Safe, Efficient Growth in Global Operations Topic 2: Innovation in Commercial High-Speed Aircraft Topic 3: Ultra-Efficient Subsonic Transports Topic 4: Safe, Quiet, and Affordable Vertical Lift Air Vehicles Topic 5: In-Time System-Wide Safety Assurance Topic 6: Assured Autonomy for Aviation Transformation

  • University of California, Berkeley

    Seeking: Partner

    Point of contact
    Prof. Avideh. Zakhor
    Contact email
    avz@berkeley.edu

    Research interests

    Topic 6: Assured Autonomy for Aviation Transformation (Strategic Thrust 6) We have done relevant work on Vision-Guided Outdoor Flight and Obstacle Evasion via Reinforcement Learning

  • Georgia Institute of Technology

    Seeking: Partner

    Point of contact
    Cristina Riso, Assistant Professor
    Contact email
    criso@gatech.edu

    Research interests

    Topic 2: Innovation in Commercial High-Speed Aircraft (Strategic Thrust 2) Topic 3: Ultra-Efficient Subsonic Transports (Strategic Thrust 3) Topic 4: Safe, Quiet, and Affordable Vertical Lift Air Vehicles (Strategic Thrust 4) Expertise: aeroelastic modeling, analysis, and simulation

  • Duke University

    Seeking: Lead-and-Partner

    Point of contact
    Miroslav Pajic

    Research interests

    Topic 5: In-Time System-Wide Safety Assurance (Strategic Thrust 5) Topic 6: Assured Autonomy for Aviation Transformation (Strategic Thrust 6)

  • Stanford University

    Seeking: Lead-and-Partner

    Point of contact
    Fu-Kuo Chang, Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics

    Research interests

    Topic 5: In-time System-wide Safety Assurance Topic 6 Assured Autonomy of Aviation Transformation

  • Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

    Seeking: Partner

    Point of contact
    David Hopfe, Director of Research Development Office of the Vice President for Research and Doctoral Programs

    Research interests

    Topic 1: Safe, Efficient Growth in Global Operations (Strategic Thrust 1) Topic 2: Innovation in Commercial High-Speed Aircraft (Strategic Thrust 2) Topic 3: Ultra-Efficient Subsonic Transport (Strategic Thrust 3) Topic 4: Safe, Quiet, and Affordable Vertical Lift Air Vehicles (Strategic Thrust 4) Topic 5: In-Time System-Wide Safety Assurance (Strategic Thrust 5) Topic 6: Assured Autonomy for Aviation Transformation (Strategic Thrust 6)

  • University of Wisconsin-Madison

    Seeking: Lead-and-Partner

    Point of contact
    Pavana Prabhakar

    Research interests

    Topic 2: Innovation in Commercial High-Speed Aircraft Topic 3: Ultra-Efficient Subsonic Transports Topic 4: Safe, Quiet, and Affordable Vertical Lift Air Vehicles Expertise: Advanced manufacturing of composite materials - additive manufacturing and composite fabrication; Damage and failure mechanics of architected composite materials; Design of durable and damage-tolerant composites; Life prediction of materials in multi-physics environments.

  • The Ohio State University

    Seeking: Lead-and-Partner

    Point of contact
    Matilde D’Arpino, Research Assistant Professor Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
    Contact email
    Darpino.2@osu.edu

    Research interests

    Topic 1: Safe, Efficient Growth in Global Operations Topic 2: Innovation in Commercial High-Speed Aircraft Topic 3: Ultra-Efficient Subsonic Transports Topic 4: Safe, Quiet, and Affordable Vertical Lift Air Vehicles Expertise: • Electric drive and energy storage modeling, control, and diagnostic of electro-mechanical and thermal systems for propulsion and avionics. • Design and control of electric propulsion systems integrated in aircraft and supportive infrastructures (charging station, gird interaction), lifetime analysis, economic analysis. • Commercial aircraft and advanced air mobility. • System integration and prototyping up to MW scale. • Experience in co-leading NASA ULI program.

  • Auburn University

    Seeking: Lead-and-Partner

    Point of contact
    Rongxuan Wang, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
    Contact email
    rzw0090@auburn.edu

    Research interests

    Topic 2: Innovation in Commercial High-Speed Aircraft Topic 3: Ultra-Efficient Subsonic Transports Topic 4: Safe, Quiet, and Affordable Vertical Lift Air Vehicles Expertise: Metal and polymer additive manufacturing, open-architecture LPBF testbed with dual-laser and beam-shaping, advanced sensing (thermal imaging, digital image correlation, 3D scanning, etc.), and control in additive manufacturing.

  • Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond, VA (R1 institution)

    MSI

    Seeking: Partner

    Point of contact
    Carlos E. Castano, Associate Professor of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Department, and Director of VIP College of Engineering

    Research interests

    Topic 1: Safe, Efficient Growth in Global Operations Topic 2: Innovation in Commercial High-Speed Aircraft Topic 3: Ultra-Efficient Subsonic Transports Topic 4: Safe, Quiet, and Affordable Vertical Lift Air Vehicles Topic 5: In-Time System-Wide Safety Assurance Topic 6: Assured Autonomy for Aviation Transformation Expertise: Tailoring surface properties experimentally of materials for applications in energy, transportation, and manufacturing. The research areas are organized in four fields: Nanotechnology, Surface Science, Functional Coatings, and Materials under Extreme Environments (Irradiation, Plasmas, and High Temperatures).

  • Auburn University

    Seeking: Partner

    Point of contact
    Bosen Lian, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
    Contact email
    bzl0098@auburn.edu

    Research interests

    Topic 4: Safe, Quiet, and Affordable Vertical Lift Air Vehicles Topic 5: In-Time System-Wide Safety Assurance Topic 6: Assured Autonomy for Aviation Transformation Expertise: cooperative control, reinforcement learning, inverse reinforcement learning, distributed estimation, and UAVs

  • University of Alabama

    Seeking: Partner

    Point of contact
    Pan Zhao, Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics
    Contact email
    pan.zhao@ua.edu

    Research interests

    Topic 1: Safe, Efficient Growth in Global Operations Topic 4: Safe, Quiet, and Affordable Vertical Lift Air Vehicles Topic 5: In-Time System-Wide Safety Assurance Topic 6: Assured Autonomy for Aviation Transformation Expertise: robust adaptive control, learning-enabled control, control under constraints, safe autonomous systems, applications to aerospace systems and air mobility

  • M4 Engineering, Inc.

    Seeking: Partner

    Point of contact
    Tyler Winter, Director of Program Management

    Research interests

    Topic 1: Safe, Efficient Growth in Global Operations Topic 2: Innovation in Commercial High-Speed Aircraft Topic 3: Ultra-Efficient Subsonic Transports Topic 4: Safe, Quiet, and Affordable Vertical Lift Air Vehicles

  • Indiana University

    Seeking: Lead-and-Partner

    Point of contact
    Or Dantsker, Assistant Professor, Aerospace Systems Lab (https://aerosyslab.com)
    Contact email
    odantske@iu.edu

    Research interests

    Topic 3: Ultra-Efficient Subsonic Transports Topic 4: Safe, Quiet, and Affordable Vertical Lift Air Vehicles Topic 5: In-Time System-Wide Safety Assurance Topic 6: Assured Autonomy for Aviation Transformation Expertise: aerospace systems design, UAS development & integration, AAM & VTOL systems, flight testing & experimental evaluation, autonomous system perception & testing, real-time object detection & tracking, multi-agent control & coordination, AI/ML integration, human-machine teaming, software & systems integration, electrification & solar-powered, rapid prototyping & technology demonstration.

  • University of Dayton

    Seeking: Partner

    Point of contact
    Darrell Crowe, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
    Contact email
    dcrowe1@udayton.edu

    Research interests

    High-fidelity CFD for advanced air mobility, weapons bay store separation, and propulsion integration