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Professional Leadership

  • Appointed by AIAA Executive Director to AIAA SciTech Forum Guiding Coalition (SciTech GC) committee for SciTech 2023 and SciTech 2024. The committee, consisting of thought leaders from throughout academia, industry, and government, is tasked to provide a high-level vision and guidance for the continued development of this annual event. (Note: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, AIAA, is a premier technical society for aerospace engineering with nearly 30,000 individual members from 85 countries.)
  • Invited by the organizers of the Vaishvik Bhartiya Vaigyanik (VAIBHAV) Summit–a global summit of overseas and resident Indian scientists and academicians–to participate as an Esteemed Aerospace Expert in deliberations aimed at identifying collaboration and cooperation instruments in AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGIES to further enhance the knowledge-base of Indian Research and Academic Institutions.
  • Invited by NASA-Langley Research Center to serve on the External Review Team of the Comprehensive Digital Transformation (CDT) program, 2016-2018
  •  Invited by Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) to serve on the Advisory Committee for the Engineered Surfaces, Materials, and Coatings (ESMC) for Aircraft Drag Reduction program, 2015-2017
  • Invited Guest Speaker, 5th Symposium on Integrating CFD and Experiments in Aerodynamics (Integration’12), Tokyo, Japan, 2012
  • Invited Guest Speaker at CD-adapco Customer Advisory Council meeting, New Orleans, 2011
  • Elected by peers to the prestigious Fellow grade in the American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics (AIAA), 2011
  • Invited Keynote Speaker at RAeS Aerodynamics Conference, Bristol, U.K., 2010
  • Served as the Lockheed Martin representative, by invitation, on the Industrial Advisory Board, Michigan/ Air Force Research Laboratory/ Boeing Collaborative Center in Aeronautical Sciences (CCAS), 2007–2011
  • Served as Lockheed Martin representative, by invitation, on the Strategic Advisory Committee, Air Force Research Laboratory/ Virginia Tech/ Wright State University Collaborative Center for Multidisciplinary Sciences (CCMS), 2008–2011
  • Invited Keynote Speaker at the NATO/RTO Air Vehicle Technology Symposium on Computational Uncertainty in Military Vehicle Design, Athens, Greece, 2007
  • Selected by LM to attend Executive Program Manager’s course, Defense Systems Management College, Defense Acquisition University, Fort Belvoir, VA, 2004
  • Selected by the LM Aeronautics Company President for the Lockheed Martin Leadership & Executive Assessment and Development (LEAD) program, 2004–2005
  • Invited to serve on the National Advisory Committee of High Performance Computing Initiative of the Council on Competitiveness, Washington DC, 2003–2011
  • Appointed to serve as Leader of the LM Corporate Technology Focus Group on Aero-sciences from its inception in 2002 through 2011
  • Appointed to lead the Lockheed Martin  Corporate Task Force on Advanced Computing, 1994-2000
  • Selected to participate in the Lockheed Martin Excellence through Development and Growth Enhancement (EDGE) program, 2001–2002
  • Invited to represent Lockheed Martin on a panel of Distinguished Leaders to outline their vision of the Future of CFD at the AIAA Fluids 2000 Conference and Exhibit, Denver, CO, June 2000
  • Represented Lockheed Martin on the Flight Research Subcommittee (FRS) of NASA Aero-Space Technology Advisory Committee (ASTAC), 1999–2001
  • Invited to serve on Peer Review panels by
    • NASA-Langley Research Center, Aerodynamics Research Programs, 2015
    • Sandia National Laboratory, Compressible Fluid Mechanics and Aerothermodynamics Programs, 1999
    • Air Force Research Laboratory, Computational Sciences Research Branch, 1999
    • NASA-Langley Research Center, High-Lift Aerodynamics Program, 1999
    • NASA-Langley Research Center, Computational Algorithms Program, 1997
    • NASA-Langley Research Center, High Alpha Research Program, 1991
  • Invited to serve as Aerodynamics Team Captain, Aero-Structure-Control Interaction Workshop, Cleveland, Ohio, 1997
  • Served, by invitation, on National Research Council’s Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board Fluids Panel to evaluate AFOSR proposals, 1996–2002
  • Invited to serve on American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics (AIAA) Progress Series Review Panel in 1999, and Journal of Aircraft Review Committee, 1997
  • Invited by NASA-Ames to serve as a Panel Member on “How Can NASA Better Advance High Performance Computing?” at the Computational Aero-Sciences Workshop, 1995
  • Invited to give a lecture on Modern Methods for Aerodynamic Analysis, AIAA Short Course on Aerodynamic Analysis and Design, 1992
  • Invited to present papers at national and international conferences including
    • “CFD for Aerodynamic Flight Performance Prediction: From Irrational Exuberance to Sobering Reality,” 5th Symposium on Integration of CFD and Experiments in Aerodynamics, Tokyo, Japan, Oct 3-5, 2012
    • “Overarching Challenges and Opportunities for the Development of Future Air Platforms,” 2010 Royal Aeronautical Society Aerodynamics Conference, Bristol, UK, July 27-28, 2010
    • “Computational Uncertainty: Achilles’ Heel of Simulation Based Aircraft Design,” NATO/RTO Air Vehicle Technology (AVT) Symposium on Computational Uncertainty in Military Vehicle Design, Athens, Greece, December 3-6, 2007
    • “CFD for Aircraft Design: Expectations, Challenges and Opportunities,” Recent Trends in Applied Aerodynamics and Design, edited by D. Kroner et al, Proceedings of SAROD-2007, Thiruvananthapuram, India, November 2007, pp. 123-142
    • “An Assessment of CFD Effectiveness for Vortex Flow Simulation to Meet Preliminary Design Needs,” NATO/RTO Air Vehicle Technology (AVT) Symposium on Advanced Flow Management, Loen, Norway, May 7-11, 2001
    • “Aircraft Design in the 21st Century: Implications for Design Methods,” AIAA Fluids Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico, June 1998
    • “CFD at a Crossroads: An Industry Perspective,” Frontiers of Computational Fluid Dynamics Symposium, Everett, Washington, June 1997 (to honor Prof. Murman, Aero & Astro, MIT, on his 55th Birthday)
    • “Requirements for Effective Use of CFD in Aerospace Design,” NASA Workshop on Surface Modeling, Grid Generation and Related Issues in CFD, Cleveland, Ohio, May 1995
    • “Recent Advances in Euler/Navier-Stokes Computational Methods,” International Symposium on Advances in Aerospace Sciences and Engineering, Bangalore, India, December 1992
    • “Recent Developments in the Computational Solutions of the Euler Equations,” Third International Congress of Fluid Mechanics, Cairo, Egypt, January 1990
  • International conference papers and presentations include
    • Royal Aeronautical Society Applied Aerodynamics Conference, U.K. (2010, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2022)
    • International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences (ICAS) Congress in France (1984), U.K. (1986), Sweden (1990), Italy (1996), South Korea (2016), Sweden (2022), and Italy (2024)
    • Symposium on Integration of CFD and Experiments in Aerodynamics, Japan (2012)
    • NATO Air Vehicle Technology Symposium, Greece (2007)
    • SAROD, Symposium on Applied Aerodynamics and Design of Aerospace Vehicles, India (2007)
    • NATO Air Vehicle Technology Symposium, Norway (2001)
    • International Symposium on Advances in Aerospace Sciences and Engineering, India (1992)
    • SAE International Pacific Aerospace Conference (iPAC), Japan (1991)
    • Third International Congress of Fluid Mechanics, Egypt (1990)