Dr. Hanbong Lee

Center: NASA Ames Research Center (ARC)

Division: Aviation Systems Division

Branch: Aerospace High Density Operations Branch

Professional Biography

Dr. Hanbong Lee is an Aerospace Engineer at NASA Ames Research Center, leading the Airspace Services team to develop various airspace services and data services to support Urban Air Mobility (UAM) operations in the Air Mobility Pathfinders (AMP) project. Before joining the AMP project, he served as the team lead for Airspace Services focus area and the Network Scheduler team lead for the UAM subproject in the ATM-X project. Until 2020, he led the Systems Analysis team and performed various air traffic data analyses and fast-time simulations under the Airspace Technology Demonstration 2 (ATD-2) project for the integrated departure, arrival, and surface operations. He received his B.S. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Seoul National University, Korea and both M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research interests include scheduling algorithms for efficient and safe operations of advanced air mobility and traditional air traffic, air traffic data analysis using machine learning algorithms, and applications of fast-time simulations to aviation industry.