Safety Best Practices Lead

• Dec 2020 - Present

Senior Safety Best Practices Specialist

• Oct 2020 - Dec 2020

Best Practices Specialist

• Jan 2020 - Oct 2020

Associate Professor

• Jul 2020 - Feb 2022

Early Tenure and Promotion. Leave of Absence starting Spring 2020

Assistant Professor

• Aug 2016 - Jul 2020

Advanced the involvement of the department in research projects and explored collaborations with local airports and industry partners. Revised the program curriculum, developing new courses and modifying old ones. Promoted outreach programs to grow enrollment. Coordinated efforts to improve program visibility within the College of Engineering.Teaching: Intro to Aviation (Avia 2), Aerodynamics (Avia 193), Unmanned Air Vehicles (Avia 150), Aviation Management (Avia 78), Avionics and Comm Systems (co-instructor, Avia 68)Research: Head of the RiSAS Lab - Risk and Safety Assessment for Autonomous Vehicles. Current Project: Analysis of Disengagement Modes for Autonomous Ground Vehicles

Research Associate

• Aug 2017 - Feb 2022

Graduate Research Assistant

• Jan 2012 - May 2016

Expertise: System Safety; Risk Assessment; Hazard and Failure Analysis; Accident InvestigationThesis title: Model-based safety supervisory control for risk-informed safety interventionsResearch Topics: - Adoption of Temporal Logic to bear on Risk Assessment and System Safety- Introduction of Hazard Level and Danger Indices for on-line safety monitoring- Software contributions to aircraft mishaps (manned and unmanned)- Analysis of the chain of causality and primitives of causalityAdditional responsibilities: undergraduate research supervisor; reviewer of lab's publications.

Graduate Teaching Assistant

• Jan 2012 - Dec 2015

Deliverables: Drafting of homework (weekly); drafting of exams' content (monthly); weekly grading; occasional lecturing; class project mentoring and tutoring. Class size ranged from 40 to 80 students.Classes: Introduction to Aerospace Engineering; Vehicle Performance; Low Speed Aerodynamics; Dynamics; Classical and Modern Control; Engineering Graphics and Visualisation.

Graduate Researcher

• Dec 2010 - Jul 2011

Research on hybrid rockets for master thesis project (international exchange program). Successfully developed analytical and numerical models for the combustion and heat exchange equations in hybrid rockets (solid fuel-liquid oxidiser). Developed non-linear regression hypothesis to estimate the regression rate of solid fuel surface during combustion. Research on hybrid rockets for master thesis project (international exchange program). Successfully developed analytical and numerical models for the combustion and heat exchange equations in hybrid rockets (solid fuel-liquid oxidiser). Developed non-linear regression hypothesis to estimate the regression rate of solid fuel surface during combustion.