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- Draper Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
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- Consultant
- T. Wilson Professor Emeritus
Amedeo Rodolfo Odoni is the T. Wilson Professor Emeritus in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT. He specializes in Operations Research with research interests in applied probability theory, stochastic processes and decision-making under uncertainty. His principal application domains are airport planning and operations, air traffic management, urban service systems, and urban transportation. He has served in many leadership positions including: Co-Director of MIT's Operations Research Center (1985-91); Head, Systems Division, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics (1992-95); National Co-Director of NEXTOR, the FAA's National Center of Excellence in Aviation Operations Research (1996-2002); Co-Director of the Global Airline Industry Center at MIT (1999-2009); and Lead Principal Investigator and Principal Investigator of the Future Urban Mobility Program under SMART, the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (2009-15).
Professor Odoni is co-author and/or co-editor of twelve books, three of which are leading international textbooks, and author or co-author of more than 100 professional publications. He served as editor-in-chief of Transportation Science from 1985 to 1991, and is a current or past member of the editorial boards of many professional journals.
His distinctions and honors include: elected Member, U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE), "for contributions and global leadership in air traffic control and airport systems" [2011]; Fellow, Inst. for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS) [2004]; Robert F. Herman Lifetime Achievement Award, "for contributions to Transportation Science", INFORMS [2001]; Robert Horonjeff Award, "for contributions to Air Transport Engineering", American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) [2017]; T. Wilson Chair Professor, MIT [1996]; Honorary Dean, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics [2017]; Honorary Ph.D. (Doctorate honoris causa), Athens University of Economics and Business [2006]; U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, National Award for Excellence in Aviation Education [1995]; Capers and Marion McDonald Award for Excellence in Mentoring and Advising, MIT School of Engineering [2007]; Maseeh Excellence-in-Teaching Award, MIT Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering [2007]; Best Published Paper (2014-2016) Award, Transportation and Logistics Section of INFORMS (with A. Jacquillat) [2017]; Best Published Paper (2011-2013) Award, Transportation and Logistics Section of INFORMS (with D. Bertsimas and G. Lulli) [2014]; Martin Kunz Lecturer, European Aviation Conference [2017]; MIT Graduate Student Council Award for Excellence in Teaching [1985, 1996]; Member, National Council for Research and Technology of Greece [2011-2014]; Honorary Member of AGIFORS (one of four inaugural Honorary Members) [1991]; Fulbright Scholar [1972].
He has supervised 43 Ph.D. students and has been a member of the Ph.D. thesis committees of about 100 others. The PhD students he has supervised have won major prizes for their research and dissertations including: the INFORMS George B. Dantzig Best Dissertation Award [2015]; the Dissertation Award of the Transportation Science and Logistics Section of INFORMS [1976, 1978, 1984, 1988, 2015], as well as two honorable mentions [1999, 2005]; the US DOT Student of the Year Award [1999]; and the Council of University Transportation Centers Milton Pikarsky Award in Science & Technology [2015].
Dr. Odoni has served as consultant to many national and international organizations, including a large number of the busiest airports in the world, on projects related to practically every aspect of airport planning and design, and to air traffic management.
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- Fellow, Zonta International
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- Assistant Professor
- Development Professor
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- Infrastructure Manager
- Manager of Infrastructure
- Manager of Infrastructure / Staff
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- Student Services Assistant
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- Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
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- Director
- Founder
- Apollo Program Professor
Prof. Wardle is the Founder and Director of the necstlab research group and MIT's Nano-Engineered Composite aerospace STructures (NECST) industry Consortium. Prof. Wardle is active in the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies (ISN), MIT Materials Research Laboratory (MRL), and the Microsystems Technology Laboratory (MTL), and MIT.nano communities at MIT. His research focuses on bulk nanostructured materials, particularly nanoengineered hierarchical advanced composites with enhanced mechanical properties, with recent extensions towards multiple types of multifunctionality. Highlights from recent work include conception and fabrication of aligned carbon nanotubes (CNT) nanoengineered composite laminate architectures, development and realization of a nanostructured aerovehicle ice protection system, discovery of a new class of oxide catalysts for carbon nanotube (CNT) synthesis, creation of novel carbon matrix nanocomposites, and co-invention of out-of-oven manufacturing of advanced composite laminates. Past work includes nonlinear design and operation of thermomechanically stable ultra-thin fuel cells operating in the postbuckling regime, and development and experimental verification of a design tool for optimal-power MEMS energy harvesters. Prof. Wardle has authored over 100 journal articles, given more than 80 invited talks, holds 25 patents with 50 others pending that have been licensed by small and large companies, and was the principal and technical Founder of n12 Technologies. Professor Wardle's educational activities cover experimentation and modeling of materials and structures.
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- Director of Administration
- Finance
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- Charles Stark Draper Career Development Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
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- Assistant Professor
- Professor and Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
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- Fast and Guaranteed Safe Controller Synthesis for Nonlinear Vehicle Models International Conference on Computer Aided Verification ( 2020 )
- Leonardo Career Development Professor in Engineering
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- Associate
- MIT Vice Chancellor ( Interim )
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- Director of MIT Media Lab
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- Frances and David Dibner Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing
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- Research Engineer / Research
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- Director of Digital Learning / Chair, Undergraduate Committee
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- Ford Foundation Professor of Engineering / Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Post Tenure
- Professor of Engineering at MIT
Edward Crawley is the Ford Professor of Engineering at MIT. From 2011 to 2016 he served as the founding president of the Skolkovo Insitute of Science and Technology, Moscow, a new university focused on science and innovation. Prior to that he served as the Director of the Bernard M. Gordon - MIT Engineering Leadership Program, an effort to significantly strengthen the quality of engineering leadership education for competitiveness and innovation. From 2003 to 2006 he served as the Executive Director of the Cambridge - MIT Institute, a joint venture with Cambridge University, funded by the British government and industry, with a mission to understand and generalize how universities act as engines of innovation and economic growth. In this capacity he was in close consultation with the British Government on issues of science and innovation policy. For the previous seven years, he served as the Department Head of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT, leading the strategic realignment of the department.
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- Graduate Program Administrator
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- Human Resources Administrator
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- Research Affiliate / Research / STAR Lab
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- Professors
- Richard Cockburn Maclaurin Professor in Aeronautics and Astronautics
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- Visiting Scientist / Research
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- Strategic Advisor and Executive Director, LAE / Research / Hansman Research Group
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- Professor in Aeronautics and Astronautics
- Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT
Edward M. Greitzer is the H. N. Slater Professor, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT, where he has been Director, Gas Turbine Laboratory and Interim Department Head. He received BA, SM and PhD degrees from Harvard University. Prior to joining MIT he was with United Technologies Corporation (UTC), at Pratt & Whitney, and, more recently, Director, Aeromechanical, Chemical, and Fluid Systems at UTRC. His research includes gas turbines, turbomachinery, propulsion system-airframe integration, active control of fluid systems, vortex flows, and industry-university collaboration. He was the MIT lead on the Cambridge-MIT Silent Aircraft Initiative, the Principal Investigator for the NASA sponsored D8 "double-bubble" aircraft project, and the MIT Founding Head of the Engineering Product Development Pillar at Singapore University of Technology and Design, a new university developed collaboratively by MIT and Singapore.
Dr. Greitzer is a four-time recipient of the ASME Gas Turbine Award and a recipient of the ASME Freeman Scholar Award in Fluids Engineering, the International Gas Turbine Institute (IGTI) Scholar Award, and publication awards from AIAA and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. He has received the IGTI Aircraft Engine Technology Award, the Air Force Exceptional Civilian Service Award, the AIAA Reed Aeronautics Award, the ASME R. Tom Sawyer Award, MIT's Everett Moore Baker Award for undergraduate teaching, and (twice) his departmental undergraduate teaching award. Dr. Greitzer has authored approximately 90 papers and is lead author of the book Internal Flow: Concepts and Applications (Cambridge University Press). He has been a Visiting Fellow of the Japan Society for Promotion of Science and twice an Overseas Fellow at Cambridge University and is an AIAA Honorary Fellow, an ASME Fellow, a National Academy of Engineering member, an Honorary Professor, Beihang University, and an International Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
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- Associate Dean, MIT School of Engineering
- Professor
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- Visiting Engineer / Research
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- MIT 's Vice President for Research
- MIT Vice President for Research
- Professor of Aeronautics
As MIT's Vice President for Research, Waitz is the Institute's senior research officer and has overall responsibility for research administration and policy at the Institute.
Ian A. Waitz is the Jerome C. Hunsaker Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Vice President for Research at MIT. Vice President Waitz is the Institute's senior research officer and has overall responsibility for research administration and policy at the Institute. He sets MIT's strategic research direction, fosters an outstanding research environment for faculty, students, and staff, and enables major multidisciplinary research initiatives. The Vice President for Research is responsible for research integrity and compliance and plays a central role in the Institute's research relationships with the federal government, industry, and other sponsors. Vice President Waitz oversees MIT Lincoln Laboratory and more than a dozen interdisciplinary research laboratories and centers.
Waitz has been on the faculty at MIT since 1991. He has served as head of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, as dean of the School of Engineering, and most recently, from 2017 to 2024, as MIT's vice chancellor for undergraduate and graduate education. While leading the Office of the Vice Chancellor, Waitz re-envisioned the first-year undergraduate academic experience, expanded undergraduate advising and financial aid, and increased support and professional development opportunities for graduate students. He also led MIT's response to graduate student unionization. As dean of the School of Engineering from 2011 to 2017, Waitz enhanced the school's ability to attract and support exceptional students and faculty, launched the MIT-wide Institute for Data, Systems, and Society and the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, fostered innovation and entrepreneurship among students and faculty, and advanced programs for residential and online learning.
Waitz's early research led to advances in gas turbine engines, fluid mechanics, combustion, and acoustics. However, his most significant contributions have related to the modeling and evaluation of climate, air quality, and noise impacts of aviation, along with the assessment of technological, operational, and policy options for mitigating these impacts. These efforts have led to more rigorous evaluations of environmental policy and technology. His current research aims to reduce the climate impacts of aviation.
Waitz received his BS in 1986 from the Pennsylvania State University, his MS in 1988 from the George Washington University, and his PhD in 1991 from the California Institute of Technology. He has engaged widely with U.S. and international government and industry throughout his career. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and has been recognized by multiple awards for teaching and research, including MIT's MacVicar Fellowship.
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- Professor of the Practice of Aerospace Engineering Director, Human Systems Lab / Director, Massachusetts Space Grant
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- Professor
- Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
- Professor, Post Tenure
- Undergraduate Committee Chair
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- Research Specialist / Research
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- Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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- Department Head / Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
- Department Head, AeroAstro
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- Visiting Associate Professor
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- Senior Leadership Giving Officer
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- Financial Assistant
- Financial Officer
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- Visiting Assistant Professor
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- Head, Space Sector / Chair, Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Committee Director, Small Satellite Collaborative Sheila Evans Widnall ( 1960 ) Professor
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- Boeing Career Development Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics / Principal Investigator, Laboratory for Information & Decision Systems ( LIDS )
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- Academic Program Administrator
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- Principal Research Engineer / Principal Investigator Research
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- Visiting Scientist / Research
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- Research Scientist / Research
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- Associate Department Head
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- Financial Officer
- Financial Coordinator
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- Academic Programs Specialist
- Graduate Program Administrator
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- Digital Education Lecturer and Curriculum Designer
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- Research Affiliate / Research
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- Chairman of Graduate Committee
- Head, Computing Sector
- Professor in Aeronautics and Astronautics
- Richard Cockburn Maclaurin Professor in Aeronautics and Astronautics
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- Senior Administrative Assistant
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- Researcher at UC San Francisco
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- Visiting Associate Professor / Research / LAE
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- Research Engineer / Research
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- Professor Emeritus of Aeronautics and Astronautics
- Professor in Aeronautics
- Professor in Aeronautics, Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
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- Senior Technical Instructor
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- Research Affiliate / Research / STAR Lab