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Dr. Siva S. Banda
US Air Force Military Biographies, Annual, 2004
DR. SIVA S. BANDA
Dr. Siva S. Banda, a member of the scientific and professional cadre of senior executives, is Senior Scientist for Control Theory, Air Vehicles Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. He performs and directs research, and development activities at the Center of Excellence in Control Science. His primary responsibility is the transition of basic research results from control theory to the aerospace industry. He is focusing his research efforts on autonomous and cooperative control of multiple unmanned air vehicles, guidance and control of transatmospheric vehicles, and aerodynamic flow control and formation control of microsatellite clusters. In addition to his flight controls efforts, he collaborates on numerous interdisciplinary research problems with several AFRL directorates.
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Dr. Banda joined the Flight Dynamics Laboratory in 1981 as an aerospace research engineer in the Flight Controls Division. His technical activities at the AFRL and its predecessors have had many facets. He has held the positions of in-house researcher, task team leader, group leader, program manager, branch chief, consultant, mentor and technical leader for basic research in flight control systems. He has made pioneering and lasting contributions to the areas of robust multivariable control theory dealing with uncertainties, on-line system identification and reconfigurable flight control.
Dr. Banda has written and co-written more than 180 archival articles and 12 technical reports and books, and delivered more than 65 lectures. He is a technical adviser to the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Office of Naval Research, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Research Council and several leading academic institutes worldwide. He has served as thesis adviser and adjunct professor at the Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, and the University of Dayton. He is on numerous technical, organizing and award committees for the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
EDUCATION
1974 Bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering, Regional Engineering College, Warangal, India
1976 Master of science degree in aerospace engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
1978 Master of science degree in systems engineering, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio
1980 Doctor of philosophy degree in aerospace engineering, University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio
CAREER CHRONOLOGY
1. 1981-1986, aerospace research engineer, Flight Controls Division, Flight Dynamics Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio
2. 1986-1987, group leader, Flight Dynamics Directorate, Wright Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio
3. 1987-1995, task team leader, Flight Dynamics Directorate, Wright Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio
4. 1995-1996, branch chief and program manager, Flight Dynamics Directorate, Wright Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio
5. 1996-2000, technical leader, Air Vehicles Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio
6. 2000-present, Senior Scientist for Control Theory, Air Vehicles Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio
AWARDS AND HONORS
Fellow, Air Force Research Laboratory
General Benjamin D. Foulois Award
Air Force Star Team Award
Best Paper Award, AIAA
IEEE Control Systems Technology Award
Royal Aeronautical Societys Silver Medal
Evening plenary speaker, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND ASSOCIATIONS
Fellow, AIAA
Fellow, IEEE
Board of governors, Control Systems Society, IEEE
Editorial board, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control
Former associate editor, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
Former associate editor, Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics
General Chairman, AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference
Board of visitors, Office of Naval Research
Peer review board, NASA Langley Research Center
(Current as of April 2002)
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