Our SSEL Director Roberto Furfaro elected AIAA Associate Fellow

September 27, 2021 – Reston, Va. –Reston, Va. – The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) is pleased to announce its newly elected Class of 2022 Associate Fellows. AIAA will formally honor and induct the class at the AIAA Associate Fellows Induction Ceremony, Monday, 3 January 2022, at the Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego in San Diego, Calif., during the 2022 AIAA SciTech Forum, 3–7 January.

“Congratulations to each member of the Class of 2022 Associate Fellows,” said AIAA President Basil Hassan. “This distinguished group of individuals exemplify passion and dedication to advancing the aerospace profession. Each of them was selected because of their significant and lasting contributions to the field. They are truly shaping the future of aerospace.”

The grade of Associate Fellow recognizes individuals “who have accomplished or been in charge of important engineering or scientific work, or who have done original work of outstanding merit, or who have otherwise made outstanding contributions to the arts, sciences, or technology of aeronautics or astronautics.” To be selected as an Associate Fellow an individual must be an AIAA Senior Member in good standing, with at least 12 years of professional experience, and be recommended by three current Associate Fellows.

“The AIAA Associate Fellows personify the innovation that drives our industry forward,” said Dan Dumbacher, AIAA executive director. “The members of the Class of 2022 Associate Fellows embody the commitment, dedication, and ingenuity that are crucial for devising the best solutions to the complex questions raised across the aerospace community. On behalf of the Institute, we recognize the families, friends, and colleagues who support the Associate Fellows as they contribute in such a meaningful way to the aerospace community.”

For more information on the AIAA Honors Program or AIAA Associate Fellows, contact Patricia A. Carr at patriciac@aiaa.org.

Class of 2022 AIAA Associate Fellows

• Fred F. Afagh, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
• Frederic Alauzet, French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation, France
• Jose S. Alonso Miralles, Collins Aerospace
• Charles Bersbach, Raytheon Technologies Missiles and Defense
• William Blackwell, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
• Edwin Blosch, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics
• Charles F. Bolden Jr., The Charles F. Bolden Group LLC
• Iman Borazjani, Texas A&M University
• Nicholas Borer, NASA Langley Research Center
• Luis Giovanni Bravo Robles, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Weapons and Materials Research
• Directorate
• Roger Brewer, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics
• Kevin Brink, Air Force Research Laboratory
• L. Alberto Cangahuala, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• Katya Casper, Sandia National Laboratories
• William M. Chan, NASA Ames Research Center
• James Chen, University at Buffalo, State University of New York
• Isaias Chocron, Southwest Research Institute
• Jonathan Christensen, Sandia National Laboratories
• Timothy Cichan, Lockheed Martin Space
• Douglas Cooke, Cooke Concepts and Solutions
• Andrew M. Crocker, Dynetics, A Leidos Company
• Yongdong Cui, National University of Singapore, Singapore
• Kenneth Davidian, Federal Aviation Administration, Office of Commercial Space Transportation
• Diane Davis, a.i. solutions, Inc.
• Roeland De Breuker, TU Delft, The Netherlands
• Daniel M. Deans, Axient, LLC
• Timothy Deaver, Airbus U.S.
• Jorge Delgado, Astra Inc.
• Cassondra Dellinger, Dellinger Technologies
• Lian Duan, Ohio State University
• Sebastien Ducruix, Laboratoire EM2C-CNRS, France
• Houfei Fang, Shanghai YS Information Technology Co., Ltd., China
• Antonino Ferrante, University of Washington
• George Finelli, NASA Langley Research Center
• Glen Fountain, Johns Hopkins University
• Roberto Furfaro, University of Arizona
• Ross Gadient, Boeing Research & Technology
• Judith Gallman, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems
• Mirko Gamba, University of Michigan
• Volker Gollnick, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
• Nelson W. Green, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• Robert E. Harris, CFD Research Corporation
• David Hash, NASA Ames Research Center
• Maziar Hemati, University of Minnesota
• Miguel A. Hernandez Jr., Bastion Technologies, Inc.
• Jason Hicken, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• Zekai Hong, National Research Council Canada
• John M. Horack, Ohio State University
• Keiichi Hori, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan
• Micah Howard, Sandia National Laboratories
• Chih-Yung Huang, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
• Tristram Tupper Hyde, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
• Eddie Irani, Spirit Aerosystems, Inc.
• Hrvoje Jasak, Wikki Ltd, United Kingdom / University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
• Justin Jaworski, Lehigh University
• Sanjay Jayaram, Saint Louis University
• Robert J. Jensen, Sierra Lobo, Inc.
• Sharon Monica Jones, NASA Langley Research Center
• Thomas Juliano, University of Notre Dame
• Sergey Karabasov, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom
• John Kelly, NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center
• Andrew Keys, Air Force Institute of Technology
• Elad Kivelevitch, MathWorks, Inc.
• Sudarshan Kumar, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
• Gregory Laskowski, Dassault Systemes Company, France
• Stuart Laurence, University of Maryland
• David E. Lee, Northrop Grumman Space Systems
• Seongkyu Lee, University of California, Davis
• Kristina Lemmer, Western Michigan University
• Charles Lents, Raytheon Technologies Research Center
• Dan Lev, RAFAEL - Advanced Defence Systems Ltd., Israel
• Martin Lindsey, U.S. Navy
• Junhui Liu, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
• Stephen Lynch, Pennsylvania State University
• Arthur A. Mabbett, Leidos
• Michael Madden, NASA Langley Research Center
• Joseph R. Maly, Moog Space, and Defense
• Troy Mann, NASA Langley Research Center
• Steven Martens, Office of Naval Research
• James Masters, National Aerospace Solutions
• David R. McDaniel, DoD HPCMP Computational Research and Engineering Acquisition Tools and Environments (CREATE)
• Robert McDonald, Consultant
• James R. McIntire, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
• Michele Miller, Ball Aerospace
• Timothy K. Minton, University of Colorado Boulder
• Hever Moncayo, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
• Jamie Morin, The Aerospace Corporation
• Michael E. Mueller, Princeton University
• Karen A. Mulleners, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
• Jeffrey Muss, Sierra Engineering & Software, Inc.
• Lee Noble, NASA Headquarters
• Taku Nonomura, Tohoku University, Japan
• Alison Nordt, Lockheed Martin Space
• Julie Parish, Sandia National Laboratories
• Peter Parker, NASA Langley Research Center
• Olivia Pinon-Fischer, Georgia Institute of Technology
• George Price, Crown Consulting, Inc.
• Mark Rennie, University of Notre Dame
• Jay G. Santee, The Aerospace Corporation
• Amit K. Sanyal, Syracuse University
• Benjamin Michael Sarao III, Primary Image
• Virendra Sarohia, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• Walter S. Scott, Maxar
• Kay Sears, Lockheed Martin Space
• Benjamin D. Shaw, University of California, Davis
• Ryan Sherrill, Air Force Research Laboratory
• Mark Silver, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
• Jody Singer, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
• Sonya T. Smith, Howard University
• Michael Snyder, Redwire
• Danielle Soban, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland
• Philippe Spalart, Boeing Commercial Airplanes (retired)
• S. Alan Stern, Southwest Research Institute
• George Story, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
• Veera Sundararaghavan, University of Michigan
• Edward Swallow, The Aerospace Corporation
• James Taiclet, Lockheed Martin Corporation
• Richard E. Tuggle, PeopleTec / U.S. Army Reserve
• Krishna Venkatesan, GE Research
• C.J. (Onno) Verberne, Nammo Raufoss AS, Norway
• Naveen Vetcha, Engineering, Research, and Consulting, Inc. (ERC)
• John Vickers, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
• Jason Wadley, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics
• Ross Wagnild, Sandia National Laboratories
• Harold (Sonny) White, NASA Johnson Space Center
• Michael E. White, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research & Engineering
• Robert White, Tufts University
• Julie Williams-Byrd, NASA Langley Research Center
• Jay Willis, Modern Technology Services, Inc. (MTSI)
• Richard G. Winski, Analytical Mechanics Associates  / NASA Langley Research Center
• Andrew Wissink, U.S. Army DEVCOM AvMC Technology Development Directorate
• Sherry Yang, The Boeing Company
• Joseph W. Zimmerman, CU Aerospace, LLC

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