Plenary & Keynote

Plenary

Srinivasa M. Salapaka

Srinivasa M. Salapaka is a Full Professor with the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering at Illinois. He received the B.Tech. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology in 1995, the M.S. and the Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara, U.S.A in 1997 and 2002, respectively. During 2002-2004, he was a postdoctoral associate in the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA. Since January 2004, he has been a faculty member in Mechanical science and Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He got the NSF CAREER award in the year 2005. He got the NSF CAREER…

Plenary

Petros Voulgaris

Professor Petros G. Voulgaris received the Diploma in Mechanical Engineering from the National Technical University, Athens, Greece, in 1986, and the S.M. and Ph.D. degrees in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1988 and 1991, respectively. Since 1991, he has been with the Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois where he is currently a Professor (also appointments with the Coordinated Science Laboratory, and the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.)

Plenary

Stanislav Vassilyev

Vassilyev Stanislav Nikolayevich was born in 1946. In 1970 he graduated from the Kazan Aviation Institute named after A.N. Tupolev (USSR). Its scientific adviser was academician V.M. Matrosov, who organized in Irkutsk Institute of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS). This institute is now called the Institute for System Dynamics and Control Theory named after V.M. Matrosov. In 1991-2006, the institute was headed by S. Vassilyev. In 2006-2016, S. Vassilyev headed the V.A. Trapeznikov Institute of Control Sciences of RAS, where he continues to work as the chief researcher, as well as a professor at M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University. Directions developed by S. Vassilyev: mathematical…

Tal Shima

Tal Shima is a Full Professor with the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the Technion. He received his B.Sc., MA, and Ph.D. degrees, all in Aerospace Engineering, from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, in 1992, 1998, and 2001, respectively. He also received the MBA degree from the Tel-Aviv University in 1997. From 2000 to 2004 he was with the Air-to-Air and Surface-to-Air Directorate of RAFAEL Ltd., where he worked as a system/research engineer on advanced interceptor missile projects. In 2004 and 2005 he was awarded National Research Council scholarships for performing research on UAV cooperative decision and control at the US Air Force Research Labs, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH. His…

Keynote

Xiaofeng Wang

Xiaofeng Wang is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of South Carolina (UofSC), Columbia. He earned his B.S. degree in Applied Mathematics and M.S. in Operation Research and Control Theory from East China Normal University, China, in 2000 and 2003, respectively, and obtained his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame in 2009. After that, he worked as postdoctoral research associate at the University of Illinois at Urbana and Champaign before he joined UofSC. His research interests include robotics, cyber-physical systems, autonomous systems, multi-agent systems, networked and real-time control systems, robust fault-tolerant control, and optimization. He is associate editor of…

Keynote

Aghalaya S. Vatsala

Aghalaya S. Vatsala is is a Full Professor with the Department of Mathematics, University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Nonlinear Caputo Impulsive Fractional Differential Equations and Generalized Monotone Method Abstract: It is known that Caputo fractional differential equations play\ an important role in modeling physical situation. The models represented by Caputo fractional differential equation in general are better and efficient models than its counterpart with integer derivative models. In this work, we consider nonlinear Caputo impulsive fractional differential equations with initial conditions. Further, the impulses occur in the nonhomogeneous term. Initially, we have computed the solution of the linear Caputo impulsive fractional differential equation explicitly using the method of mathematical induction.…

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Metin Demiralp

Metin Demiralp collaborated with the Prof. Herschel A. Rabitz’s group at Princeton University (NJ, USA) at summer and winter semester breaks during the period 1985–2003 after his 14 month long postdoctoral visit to the same group in 1979–1980. He was also in collaboration with a neuroscience group at the Psychology Department in the University of Michigan at Ann Arbour in three years around 2010 (with certain publications in journals and proceedings). Metin Demiralp has more than 100 papers in well known and prestigious scientific journals, and, more than 260 contributions to the proceedings of various international conferences. He gave many invited talks in various prestigious scientific meetings and academic institutions. For further information the above given…

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Vladimir V. Golubev

Vladimir V. Golubev New Results in Wake Vortex Evolution, Interaction and Control Abstract: Wake vortex safety analysis and control for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) operating alongside commercial aircraft in the terminal zones are critical aspects in the integration of UAS into the National Airspace System (NAS), particularly in terminal airspace. We address an approach that integrates reduced-order models of wake generation, evolution, interaction and its control incorporating both theoretical and high-fidelity predictions. Our previous study estimated UAS responses in terms of the roll control ratios (RCR) developed by the follower aircraft depending on their position and orientation relative to the wake shed by the leader aircraft, as well as the…

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Masato Tamayama

Masato Tamayama
In 1991, graduated from Tokyo University of Science.
In 1993, completed Master course in Tokyo University of Science.
In 1993, started researches and developments at National Aerospace Laboratory, NAL, of Japan.
In 2001, given with Doctor of Engineering from Tokyo University of Science.
In 2003, the occupied organization changed from NAL to Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, JAXA.
Tamayama has conducted researches and developments on aeroelasticity, smart structures and morphing structures.

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Toshiya Nakamura

Toshiya Nakamura is the Director, Structures and Advanced Composite Research Unit, JAXA since 2018.
1991 PhD in Mechanical Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Japan
1994-2000 Associate Professor, The University of Tokyo
1995-1996 Visiting Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (NY, USA)
2011 Head, Airframe Structure Research Group, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
2016 Deputy Director, Next Generation Aeronautical Innovation Hub Center, JAXA
His current interest lies on the Applied Elasticity. Especially, on the Inverse Problems in Elasticity and Thermoelasticity, and their application to structural health monitoring.

Keynote

Milan Stehlik

Professor Milan Stehlík  obtained his PhD in 2003 at Comenius University, Bratislava,  Slovakia,  and he habilitated in Statistics in 2011 in Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria. During 1.3.2014-1.10.2015 he was Associate Professor at Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile. He has received Full Professorship in 2015 in University of

Valparaiso, Valparaiso, Chile. He was involved in several international projects and collaborations in Austria, Spain, Russia, Canada, Germany among others.

Currently  he works at the Linz Institute of Technology (LIT) and Institute of Applied Statistics, Johannes Kepler University Linz and at Institute of Statistics, University of Valparaíso, Chile. He does research in Probability Theory, Statistics, Mathematics and their Applications for Medicine, Ecology and Finance, with several specializations   in the experimental design, extremes, exact testing, life data modelling and reliability theory. He is Principal Investigator of Innovative project LIT-2016-1-SEE-023 Title: Modeling complex dependencies: how to make strategic multicriterial decisions?  and Chilean FONDECYT Regular Project 2015-2019, N1151441: “Statistical and mathematical modelling as a knowledge bridge between Society and Ecology Sustainability”.

Keynote

Fethi Bin Muhammad Belgacem

Fethi Bin Muhammad Belgacem