Organization Name
AirMorph LLC
Organization POC
Robert Love, Founder/CTO
POC E-mail
contact@airmorph.com
Area of Research Interest
Applications within Thrust 1 & 4: Electric and hybrid electric e-VTOL and e-STOL Air Vehicle Design and Implementation to enable local suburban air mobility
Lead Partner
Partner
Organization Name
Hampton University
Organization POC
Otsebele Nare, Associate Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering
POC E-mail
otsebele.nare@hamptonu.edu
Area of Research Interest
Thrust 1: Safe, Efficient Growth in Global Operations
Thrust 4: Safe, Quite and Affordable Vertical Lift Air Vehicles;
Lead Partner
Lead/Partner
Organization Name
University of California, Berkeley
Organization POC
Susan Shaheen, Professor
Adam Cohen, Researcher
POC E-mail
sshaheen@berkeley.edu
apcohen@berkeley.edu
Area of Research Interest
Public Perception/Societal Acceptance of UAM, VTOL, Electrification, and Autonomous Aviation
Topics 1, 4, 5, 7
Topic 1: Safe, Efficient Growth in Global Operations
Topic 4: Civil Aircraft that Incorporate Vertical Lift Capability
Topic 5: Transition to Alternative Propulsion and Energy
Topic 7: Assured Autonomy for Aviation Transformation
Lead Partner
Lead/Partner
Organization Name
Rutgers University
Organization POC
Onur Bilgen
POC E-mail
o.bilgen@rutgers.edu
Area of Research Interest
Topic 4: Safe, Quiet, and Affordable Vertical Lift Air Vehicles.
I am interested in novel morphing propellers.
Lead Partner
Lead/Partner
Organization Name
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company,
Advanced Development Programs
Organization POC
Michael Haro, Environmental Engineer Sr Staff
POC E-mail
michael.haro@lmco.com
Area of Research Interest
Bioinspired design (biomimetic) solutions to technology challenges faced in achieving NASA ULI strategies in Topics 1 through 7. For example, morphological adaptation of the serrations on the leading edge of owl wings resulting in noise reduction and improvements in aerodynamic performance or application of fractal heat pipes to distribute thermal loads on materials in hypersonic flight. Could potentially collaborate in ULI Round 4 or future rounds.
Lead Partner
Partner
Organization Name
Oregon State University
Organization POC
Prof. Yue Cao, Electrical Engineering (power electronics)
POC E-mail
yue.cao@oregonstate.edu
Area of Research Interest
Topic 4: Safe, Quiet, and Affordable Vertical Lift Air Vehicles. Prof. Cao has significant experiences with the propulsion system of heavy-duty all-electric VTOL UAV’s. He is previously employed by and currently collaborating with Amazon Prime Air. He specializes in power electronics and motor drives to improve energy efficiency and system reliability, including control and hardware designs, such as fault-tolerant motors and inverters. He has also developed UAV multi-physical power systems modeling and optimization design tool. Prof. Cao received MS/PhD from UIUC (Urbana-Champaign) and BS from UT-Knoxville. Prof. Cao is an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification overseeing UAV related submissions and leading this effort in IEEE Transportation Electrification Community. Oregon State University offers geographical diversity in the Pacific Northwest and access to local Aerospace related industry. OSU owns a 750 kW lab capable of a variety of tests.
Lead Partner
Lead/Partner
Organization Name
West Virginia University, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Organization POC
Dr. Mario Perhinschi, Professor
POC E-mail
Mario.Perhinschi@mail.wvu.edu
Area of Research Interest
Thrust 5: In-Time System-Wide Safety Assurance
Thrust 6: Assured Autonomy for Aviation Transformation
Novel artificial intelligence techniques for system monitoring and control, focus on autonomous flight/UAVs
Lead Partner
Lead/Partner
Organization Name
Embry Riddle Aeronautical University
Organization POC
Reda Mankbadi, Professor of Aerospace Engineering
POC E-mail
Reda.Mankbadi@erau.edu
Area of Research Interest
Aeroacoustics
Lead Partner
Partner
Organization Name
University of Florida
Organization POC
Corin Segal, Professor
POC E-mail
cor@ufl.edu
Area of Research Interest
Topic 7, experimental reacting and non-reacting supersonic flows in hypersonic regime
Lead Partner
Partner
Organization Name
Georgia Institute of Technology
Organization POC
Dr. Krish Ahuja, Regents Professor of Aerospace Engineering (Expertise: Aeroacoustics)
POC E-mail
krish.ahuja@ae.gatech.edu
Area of Research Interest
Innovative Noise Control Technologies applicable to any one or all the first four topics
Lead Partner
Lead/Partner
Organization Name
The Longbow Group LLC / USRTC – Fort Monroe, Virginia
Organization POC
Marco Sterk, President(Executive Director – Unmanned Research and Technology Center – USRTC.org )
POC E-mail
msterk@thelongbowgroup.com
Area of Research Interest
Thrust 4: Safe, Quite and Affordable Vertical Lift Air Vehicles;
Thrust 5: In-Time System Safety Assurance;
Thrust 6: Assured Autonomy for Aviation Transformation
Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM)
Advanced Air Mobility (AAM)
Lead Partner
Partner
Organization Name
San Jose State University (HSI and AANAPISI)
Organization POC
Dr. Ozgur Keles, Assistant Professor, Materials Engineering, (Co-director, Advanced Manufacturing Lab)
POC E-mail
ozgur.keles@sjsu.edu
Area of Research Interest
Topic 3: Ultra-Efficient Subsonic Transports (Strategic Thrust 3)
Topic 4: Safe, Quiet, and Affordable Vertical Lift Air Vehicles (Strategic Thrust 4)
Additive manufacturing of complex materials
Toughening and degradation mechanisms
Quantum dot synthesis and nano-composites
Computational fracture mechanics
Lead Partner
Lead/Partner
Organization Name
Louisiana State University
Organization POC
Dr. Shyam Menon, Assistant professor, Mechanical Engineering
POC E-mail
smenon@lsu.edu
Area of Research Interest
Thrust 4: Safe, Quite and Affordable Vertical Lift Air Vehicles.
We are involved in development of hybrid powertrains for aircraft/rotorcraft particularly for smaller power requirements suited to urban mobility.
Lead Partner
Partner
Organization Name
Interdisciplinary Consulting Corp (IC2)
Organization POC
Dr. David Mills, President
POC E-mail
dmills@thinkic2.com
Area of Research Interest
Topic 7: Novel In-Flight and Ground Measurement Techniques for Hypersonic Flight
Lead Partner
Partner
Organization Name
Purdue University
Organization POC
Guillermo Paniagua
POC E-mail
gpaniagua@purdue.edu
Area of Research Interest
Propulsion for
Topic 2: Innovation in Commercial Supersonic Aircraft (Strategic Thrust 2)
Topic 3: Ultra-Efficient Subsonic Transports (Strategic Thrust 3)
Topic 4: Safe, Quiet, and Affordable Vertical Lift Air Vehicles
Topic 7: Novel In-Flight and Ground Measurement Techniques for Hypersonic Flight
Lead Partner
Lead/Partner
Organization Name
University of Tennessee Knoxville
Organization POC
Dr. Zhenbo Wang, Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering
POC E-mail
zwang124@utk.edu
Area of Research Interest
Topic 4: Safe, Quiet, and Affordable Vertical Lift Air Vehicles
Topic 6: Assured Autonomy for Aviation Transformation
Topic 7: Novel In-Flight and Ground Measurement Techniques for Hypersonic Flight
Guidance, navigation, and control (GN&C); optimal control; real-time control and optimization; convex optimization; artificial intelligence and machine learning; trajectory optimization; atmospheric flight vehicles; unmanned aerial vehicles; urban air mobility; hypersonic vehicles
Lead Partner
Partner
Organization Name
University of Arizona
Organization POC
Dr. Kyle Hanquist, Assistant Professor in the Department of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering, hypersonics.arizona.edu
POC E-mail
hanquist@arizona.edu
Area of Research Interest
Topic 7: Novel In-Flight and Ground Measurement Techniques for Hypersonic Flight
Computational Fluid Dynamics, Reactive Flow and Nonequilibrium Modeling, Fluid-Structure-Thermal Interactions, Heat Load Predictions, Simulations, Thermal Protection Systems
High-speed and hypersonic wind tunnel testing, shockwave boundary layer interaction, boundary layer stability and transition
Lead Partner
Lead/Partner
Organization Name
University of Cincinnati
Organization POC
Dr. Ou Ma
POC E-mail
maou@ucmail.uc.edu
Area of Research Interest
Thrust 1: Safe, Efficient Growth in Global Operations;
Thrust 5: In-Time System Safety Assurance
Thrust 6: Assured Autonomy for Aviation Transformation
Lead Partner
Lead/Partner
Organization Name
Flight Safety Foundation
Organization POC
Dr. Hassan Shahidi
POC E-mail
shahidi@flightsafety.org
Area of Research Interest
Thrust 1: Safe, Efficient Growth in Global Operations;
Thrust 4: Safe, Quite and Affordable Vertical Lift Air Vehicles;
Thrust 5: In-Time System Safety Assurance;
Thrust 6: Assured Autonomy for Aviation Transformation
Lead Partner
Partner
Organization Name
CREDIT Center, Prairie View A&M University (HBCU)
Organization POC
Lijun Qian, AT&T Endowed Professor, Director of CREDIT center
POC E-mail
liqian@pvamu.edu
Area of Research Interest
Topic 6: Assured Autonomy for Aviation Transformation (Strategic Thrust 6)
Lead Partner
Lead/Partner
Organization Name
VerdeGo Aero Inc.
Organization POC
Eric Bartsch, CEO VerdeGo Aero
POC E-mail
ericb@verdegoaero.com
Area of Research Interest
Topic 4: Safe, Quiet, and Affordable Vertical Lift Air Vehicles – VerdeGo’s engineering team is developing large-scale piston hybrid-electric and battery-electric powertrain systems for peak power requirements up to 1MW. Our Jet-A piston (diesel) hybrid hardware has a significantly lower SFC than other hybrid approaches, and we are currently building full scale hardware for ground-based testing and refinement. We also have multi-rotor controls design & testing capabilities and full-scale propulsion test facilities for characterizing performance, control, and noise. VerdeGo is interested in being a partner for research involving powertrain noise reduction, energy/fuel efficiency of hybrid-electric systems, and improvements to safety and redundancy within both hybrid-electric and battery-electric powertrains involving distributed electric propulsion. We also have expertise with large-scale immersion cooled battery pack hardware for battery-electric powertrain applications.
Lead Partner
Partner
Organization Name
University of Georgia
Organization POC
Wenwen Wang, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science
POC E-mail
wenwen@cs.uga.edu
Area of Research Interest
Computer systems (architectures, compilers, operation systems, runtimes, code generation, software testing, secure and trusted execution environments)
Lead Partner
Partner
Organization Name
University of Minnesota
Organization POC
Suo Yang, Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering (Director, Computational Reactive Flow & Energy Lab, https://cse.umn.edu/me/suo-yang)
POC E-mail
suo-yang@umn.edu
Area of Research Interest
Topic 2: Innovation in Commercial Supersonic 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)
Topic 7: Novel In-Flight and Ground Measurement Techniques for Hypersonic Flight
Modeling and Simulation (Computational Fluid Dynamics) of Reacting Flows (Combustion, Turbulence, Nonequilibrium Plasma Physics, Particulate and Multiphase Flows, Supersonic/Hypersonic Aerothermodynamics, Thermoacoustics, and their Multiscale Interactions), including RANS, LES, and DNS, using both physics-based and data-driven modeling approaches.
Lead Partner
Lead/Partner
Organization Name
University of Utah
Organization POC
Pai Wang, Jacob Hochhalter and Robert Parker, Department of Mechanical Engineering
POC E-mail
pai.wang@utah.edu
Area of Research Interest
Topic 4: Safe, Quiet, and Affordable Vertical Lift Air Vehicles
We are interested in novel designs and agile product developments for noise reduction and vibration mitigation in Urban Air Mobility, aiming at next-generation ultra-light-weight and self-adaptive solutions at the material, structure and system levels.
Lead Partner
Lead/Partner
Organization Name
University of Texas at Dallas
Organization POC
Majid Minary, Eugene McDermott Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
POC E-mail
majid.minary@utdallas.edu
Area of Research Interest
Topic 7: Novel In-Flight and Ground Measurement Techniques for Hypersonic Flight, Additive Manufacturing of Polymer-Derived Ceramics for high temperature sensors
Lead Partner
Partner
Organization Name
University of Alabama in Huntsville
Organization POC
Konstantinos Kanistras, Assistant Professor in the Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Department https://aafc.uah.edu/
POC E-mail
Konstantinos.Kanistras@uah.edu
Area of Research Interest
Topic 3: Ultra-Efficient Subsonic Transports (Strategic Thrust 3)
Applied Aerodynamics, Active/Passive Flow control, Aircraft Performance, Aircraft Stability and Control. Wind Tunnel Testing, Flow Visualization and PIV testing, UAS flight testing.
Lead Partner
Partner
Organization Name
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Organization POC
Houbing Song, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, and Director, Security and Optimization for Networked Globe Laboratory (SONG Lab, http://www.songlab.us/)
POC E-mail
houbing.song@erau.edu
Area of Research Interest
Topic 1: Safe, Efficient Growth in Global Operations (Strategic Thrust 1)
Topic 5: In-Time System-Wide Safety Assurance (Strategic Thrust 5)
Topic 6: Assured Autonomy for Aviation Transformation (Strategic Thrust 6)
Lead Partner
Lead/Partner
Organization Name
The Center for Advanced Power Systems of the Florida State University (CAPS-FSU)
Organization POC
Gian Carlo Montanari, Research Faculty, CAPS
POC E-mail
Gmontanari@fsu.edu
Area of Research Interest
Main area is insulating material and insulation systems in any type of aerospace and deep space-moon application. Design of insulation, material characterization and specifications, aging model and reliability, premature failure mechanisms, diagnostic properties, monitoring and condition assessment/maintenance. Superconducting cables. Drives.
Lead Partner
Lead/Partner
Organization Name
Universities Space Research Association
Organization POC
Dr. David Bell, Director
POC E-mail
dbell@usra.edu
Area of Research Interest
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
Lead Partner
Partner
Organization Name
The University of Texas at Arlington
Organization POC
Dr. Luca Maddalena, Professor and Director, Aerodynamics Research Center
POC E-mail
luca@uta.edu
Area of Research Interest
Topic 7: Novel In-Flight and Ground Measurement Techniques for Hypersonic Flight
Development of calorimeters for arc-jet flow under constant and variable heat-flux representative of simulated trajectory requirements. Development of non-intrusive advanced diagnostics for arc-jet free-stream and shock-layer velocity, composition, and thermochemical non-equilibrium effects (fs-TALIF, FLEET, potentially CARS) with concurrent TPS material degradation. Development of turbulence intensity measurements and effects on TPS testing. Advanced non-metallic (graphite / zirconia) temperature and heat-flux sensors for in-flight and ground measurements for hypersonics (internal and external flows)
Operating 1.6MW arc-jet facility “Leste”
Lead Partner
Lead/Partner
Organization Name
New Mexico State University (Minority Serving Institute)
Organization POC
Dr. J.I. Frankel, Department Head and R. Myers Endowed Professor
POC E-mail
jfrankel@nmsu.edu
Area of Research Interest
Topic 7: Novel In-Flight and Ground Measurement Techniques for Hypersonic Flight
Dr. Frankel’s work involves developing uniquely analyzed and designed slug calorimeters for arcjets with advanced data reduction equations for resolving surface heat flux in hostile environments. He is also working on developing new calibration-based data reduction equations for estimating heat flux using thin-film temperature sensors (front of substrate and back of slug) for milli-second time scale experiments associated with shock (impulse) facilities.
Lead Partner
Partner/Lead
Organization Name
Texas A&M University
Organization POC
Jennifer Strong, Associate Professor
POC E-mail
dr.jen@tamu.edu
Area of Research Interest
Leadership development, team building and development, leading teams, mentorship, ethical leadership, evaluation
Lead Partner
Partner
Organization Name
University of Cincinnati
Organization POC
Prashant Khare
POC E-mail
Prashant.Khare@uc.edu
Area of Research Interest
Multiphase fluid dynamics, combustion, machine learning applied to complex multiphase fluid dynamics, subsonic and supersonic non-reacting and reacting flows, acoustics, efficient combustion, direct numerical simulations, large eddy simulations
Lead Partner
Partner
Organization Name
San Jose State University
Organization POC
Dr. Wenbin Wei, Professor
POC E-mail
wenbin.wei@sjsu.edu
Area of Research Interest
Strategic Thrust 1: Safe, Efficient Growth in Global Operations;
Strategic Thrust 4: Safe, Quiet, and Affordable Vertical Lift Air Vehicles;
Strategic Thrust 5: In-Time System-Wide Safety Assurance;
Strategic Thrust 6: Assured Autonomy for Aviation Transformation;
Lead Partner
Lead/Partner
Organization Name
Aurora Flight Sciences
Organization POC
Michael Klinker, Future Mobility
POC E-mail
klinker.michael@aurora.aero
Area of Research Interest
Topics 1, 3, 4, 5, 6. Cybersecurity, Aviation Security, Certifiability, Robust AI, Swarm Autonomy, Manned Unmanned Teaming, Urban Air Mobility, NAS Integration, Detect and Avoid.
Lead Partner
Partner
ULI Round 1 and 2 Partner List
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