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Planning Committee and Staff Biographical Information

JOHN-PAUL B. CLARKE, Chair, is a professor and Ernest Cockrell, Jr. Memorial Chair at the University of Texas, Austin (UT Austin). Prior to joining the faculty at UT Austin, Clarke was a faculty member at both the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the vice president of Strategic Technologies at United Technologies Corporation (now Raytheon), and a researcher at Boeing and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He has also co-founded multiple companies—most recently, Universal Hydrogen, a company dedicated to the development of a comprehensive carbon-free solution for aviation. Clarke is a leading expert in aircraft trajectory prediction and optimization, especially as it pertains to the development of flight procedures that reduce the environmental impact of aviation, and in the development and use of stochastic models and optimization algorithms to improve the efficiency and robustness of aircraft, airline, airport, and air traffic operations. He was co-chair of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine committee that developed the U.S. National Agenda for Autonomy Research Related to Civil Aviation and is particularly interested in leveraging his expertise to enable increasingly autonomous aircraft-enabled mobility, especially in urban and regional settings. Clarke received an S.B., S.M., and Sc.D. in aeronautics and astronautics from MIT.

EDWARD F. CRAWLEY is the Ford Professor of Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Previously, Crawley was director of the Bernard M. Gordon MIT Engineering Leadership Program. He was a founder of the Systems Design and Management Program at MIT and has served as the department head of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT and as the executive director of the Cambridge MIT Institute. Crawley’s research focuses on the domain of architecture, design, and decision support in complex technical systems that involve economic and stakeholder issues. His current domains of architectural research include energy systems, Earth observation, and human spaceflight. Crawley is a fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the Royal Aeronautical Society (U.K.) and is a member of national academies of engineering in Sweden and the United Kingdom, and the National Academy of Engineering in the United States. He has served as chair of the NASA Technology and Commercialization Advisory Committee and was a member of the Presidential Advisory Committee on the Space Station Redesign and the U.S. Human Spaceflight Plans (Augustine) Committee. Crawley was a visiting lecturer at the Moscow Aviation Institute and is a guest professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing. He received an S.B., S.M., and Sc.D. in aerospace engineering from MIT.

VICKI S. HERTZBERG is a professor at Emory University. Hertzberg is an expert on “big data” and its impact on health care and is widely known for her work measuring the social contacts in emergency departments and disease transmission on airplanes. Her research has been funded by the National Library of Medicine, the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, the National Institute of Environmental Health, and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Hertzberg’s work has been published in high-impact journals, including the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, New England Journal of Medicine, PLOS One, and Pediatrics. She earned her Ph.D. in biomathematics and health statistics at the University of Washington.

PARIMAL KOPARDEKAR serves as the director of the NASA Aeronautics Research Institute at NASA’s Ames Research Center. In that capacity, Kopardekar is responsible for exploring new trends, collaborations, and partnership needs related to aviation enterprise. He also serves as NASA’s senior technologist for Air Transportation Systems and principal investigator for the Unmanned Aircraft Systems Traffic Management project. Kopardekar is the recipient of many awards, including the NASA Government Invention of the Year, Exceptional Technology Achievement Medal, Outstanding Leadership Award, Engineer of the Year Award, and Samuel J. Heyman Service to America’s Promising Innovation Award, and he was named among the 25 most influential people in the commercial drone industry by Commercial UAV News. Kopardekar is co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Aerospace Operations and a fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He also serves as an adjunct faculty member at Colorado State University Global and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses related to operations management and supply chain management. Kopardekar received his Ph.D. in industrial engineering from the University of Cincinnati.

ILAN KROO is a professor of aeronautics and astronautics at Stanford University. Kroo worked as an aerospace engineer in the Advanced Aerodynamics Concepts Branch at NASA’s Ames Research Center before joining the Stanford faculty. He subsequently started a software company and worked to develop new aircraft, including a small supersonic concept and an electric vertical flight aircraft. Kroo’s research in aerodynamics and multidisciplinary design optimization includes the study of sustainable air transportation systems. He has participated in the design of unmanned aerial vehicles, flying pterosaur replicas, America’s Cup sailboats, and high-speed research aircraft. Kroo is a fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering for new concepts in design methodology and the development of unconventional aircraft. He has a Ph.D. in aeronautics and astronautics from Stanford University.

ANDREW R. LACHER is the director of the Aerospace Systems Research Center at Noblis, where he is responsible for research strategy related to aerospace and autonomous systems. Before that, Lacher was senior manager for Autonomous Systems Integration at Boeing NeXt and the Autonomy Integration and Adoption lead at the MITRE Corporation. Lacher is a recognized expert on assessing safety risks associated with unmanned and autonomous vehicles. He has focused on the safe and secure integration of unmanned aircraft systems in civil airspace as well as methods to calibrate the trustworthiness of autonomous systems. Additionally, Lacher played a leading role in the definition of the Next-Generation Air Transportation System and the development of Collaborative Decision-Making concepts for Traffic Flow Management. He was a strategic information technology consultant working with small airlines. Lacher earned both an M.S. in operations research and a B.S. in electrical engineering at George Washington University.

VALERIE M. MANNING is the senior vice president (SVP) of training and flight operations support at Airbus, based in Toulouse, France. In this role, Manning manages Airbus’s flight, maintenance, cabin, and structure training; flight simulation business; Navblue subsidiary; and flight operations engineering, support, and training standards. Prior to taking this role, she was the SVP of customer support, responsible for the in-service relationships with airline, lessor, and Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul customers worldwide for operational, technical, safety, regulatory, and commercial topics. In that role, Manning also led sales, marketing, consulting, and contracts for the Airbus Services business, as well as the Customer Services regions around the world. She has held roles as the head of Airbus’s Upgrade Services business, performing modifications on the in-service Airbus fleet,

managing the office of the chief technology officer, and leading U.S. mergers and acquisitions. Manning was a consultant with McKinsey & Company and consulted privately in multidisciplinary optimization and supersonic aircraft design. An active instrument-rated pilot and flight instructor in Europe, Manning graduated from Princeton University with a B.S. in mechanical and aerospace engineering and earned her M.S. and Ph.D. in aeronautics and astronautics from Stanford University. Manning served a full career as an officer in the U.S. Air Force, both on active duty and in the reserves.

STAFF

ALAN ANGLEMAN, Study Director, joined the National Academies in 1993 and serves as the associate director for the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (ASEB) and Space Studies Board (SSB). Angleman has directed studies on the modernization of the U.S. air transportation system, strategic planning for aeronautics and space technology, the safety of space launch systems, space nuclear power and propulsion systems, aviation weather systems, aircraft certification standards and procedures, supersonic aircraft, and other aspects of aeronautics and space research and technology. Previously, Angleman worked for consulting firms in the Washington, D.C., area, providing engineering support services to the Department of Defense and NASA. His professional career began with the U.S. Navy, where he served as a nuclear-trained submarine officer during the Cold War. He has a B.S. in engineering physics from the U.S. Naval Academy and an M.S. in applied physics from Johns Hopkins University.

SARA CRANDALL, Associate Study Director, is an associate program officer with the SSB. Prior to this role, Crandall was a Ph.D. researcher in astronomy and astrophysics. She explored the physical parameters of sun-like stars to better understand the context of the Milky Way’s formation history and evolution. Outside her research, she advocated for a family-friendly campus at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), and produced the UCSC Students as Parents resource website to support students who are raising children. In 2019, Crandall was a Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Fellow with the SSB. During her fellowship tenure, she provided recommendations on inclusive work environments for scientists. Crandall received her Ph.D. and M.S. in astrophysics and astronomy from UCSC and her M.S. and B.S. in physics from Kansas State University.

COLLEEN N. HARTMAN joined the National Academies in 2018, as director for SSB, ASEB, and Board on Physics and Astronomy (BPA). After beginning her government career as a presidential management intern under Ronald Reagan, Hartman worked on Capitol Hill for House Science and Technology Committee Chairman Don Fuqua, as a senior engineer building spacecraft at NASA Goddard, and as a senior policy analyst at the White House. She has served as planetary division director, deputy associate administrator, and acting associate administrator at NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, as deputy assistant administrator at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and as deputy center director and director of science and exploration at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Hartman has built and launched scientific balloon payloads, overseen the development of hardware for a variety of Earth-observing spacecraft, and served as NASA program manager for dozens of missions, the most successful of which was the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE). Data from the COBE spacecraft gained two NASA-sponsored scientists the Nobel Prize in physics in 2006. She also played a pivotal role in developing innovative approaches to powering space probes destined for the solar system’s farthest reaches. While at NASA Headquarters, Hartman spearheaded the selection process for the New Horizons probe to Pluto. She helped gain administration and congressional approval for an entirely new class of funded missions that are competitively selected, called “New Frontiers,” to explore the planets, asteroids, and comets in the Solar System. She has several master’s degrees and a Ph.D. in physics. Hartman has received numerous awards, including two prestigious Presidential Rank Awards.