Talks

  • Tsinghua University, Department of Automation Seminar, “Next-Generation Intelligent Air Transportation Systems”, Beijing, China, July 2016.

  • Civil Aviation University of China, College of Air Traffic Management Seminar, “Next-Generation Intelligent Air Transportation Systems”, Tianjin, China, July 2016.

  • UAS Science and Research Panel (SARP) research meeting on Impact Risk Mitigation for sUAS, “UAV Situational Awareness and Contingency Plans in Icing Conditions”, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, May 2016.

  • NASA UAS Traffic Management (UTM) Working Group meeting, “Learning from High-altitude: ConOps for Multi-UTM Systems”, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, March 2016.

  • ISU Big Data Seminar, “Big Data and Cloud Computing in Aviation”, Ames, IA, Feb. 2016.

  • INFORMS Annual Meeting, “Open Questions on Airline Passenger Reaccommodation”, Philadelphia, PA, Nov. 2015.

  • American Control Conference, “Wireless sensor network data collection by connected cooperative UAVs”, Washington DC, June 2013.

  • AIAA Conference on Guidance, Navigation and Control, “A Linear Programming Approach to the Development of Contrail Reduction Strategies Satisfying Operationally Feasible Constraints”, Minneapolis, MN, August 2012.

  • The 5th International Conference on Research in Air Transportation (ICRAT 2012), “Air transportation network robustness optimization under limited legs itinerary constraint”, Berkeley, CA, May 2012.

  • Integrated Communications, Navigation, and Surveillance (ICNS) Conference, “Workload Comparison Between Sectorized Air Traffic Control and Stream Management”, Herndon, VA, April 2012.

  • The 50th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference, “Total Unimodularity and Degeneracy-Aware Dantzig-Wolfe Decomposition for Large-Capacity Cell Transmission Model”, Orlando, Florida, USA, December 2011.

Press and Media

  • Business Record, “The Buzz About Drones”, May 8, 2015

  • Chicago Tribune, “Anatomy of a canceled flight”, March 4, 2014

  • TIME Magazine Cover Story, “Airport Confidential - Who Really Decides Which Flights Get Canceled”, March 3, 2014

  • Flyertalk, “The Strange World of Airline Cancellations”, February 27, 2014

  • Yahoo! Travel, “A computer system named 'The Cancellator’ decides if your flight is grounded”, February 20, 2014

  • Travelpulse, “Does Your Flight Stand a Chance Against 'The Cancellator’?”, February 20, 2014

  • Today, “Al Roker does a Schwarzenegger impression”, February 20, 2014

  • CBSNews, “Meet 'The Cancellator’: Computer system prioritizes which flights will fly”, February 20, 2014

  • Air Traffic Control Association Bulletin, “Young Professional Focus”, August, 2011