ASEB BIOGRAPHIES CHAIR Ilan Kroo (NAE) is professor of aeronautics and astronautics at Stanford University. Prior to joining the faculty at Stanford, he worked in the Advanced Aerodynamics Concepts Branch at the NASA’s Ames Research Center. His research in aerodynamics and multidisciplinary design optimization includes the study of innovative airplane concepts. He has participated in the design of UAVs flying pterosaur replicas, America’s Cup sailboats, and high– speed research aircraft. In addition to his research and teaching interest, he is director of a small software company and is an advanced cross-country hang glider pilot. He is a fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Kroo was elected to the National Academy of Engineering for new concepts in aircraft design methodology and for the design and development of the SWIFT airplane. He has a Ph.D. for aeronautics and astronautics from Stanford University. MEMBERS Brian M. Argrow is professor and chair of Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences. He is also director of the Integrated Remote & In Situ Sensing Program (IRISS), and director emeritus of the Research and Engineering Center for Unmanned Vehicles (RECUV) at the University of Colorado Boulder. His research topics include small unmanned aircraft system design and airspace integration, aero-gas dynamics, sonic boom, and engineering education, with more than 100 research publications. Argrow has served as associate dean for education and is a CU President’s Teaching Scholar. He is a fellow of the Center for STEM Learning and a recipient of the W.M. Keck Foundation Award for Excellence in Engineering Education. Argrow co-chaired the first Symposium for Civilian Applications of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (CAUAS). He is a fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and is chair-emeritus of the AIAA Unmanned Systems Program Committee (USPC). As well he organized and chaired the first major, joint AIAA/AUVSI event, and the Second Workshop on Civilian Applications of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (CAUAS-2). Argrow is an alumnus of the DARPA/IDA Defense Science Study Group, and he received the Air Force Exemplary Civilian Service Award for his service on the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board. He served on the NASA Advisory Council’s UAS Subcommittee and several other NASA and NOAA advisory boards andcommittees. Argrow currently serves on the ASTM F38 Subcommittee for “Specifications for UAS Operations over People.” He has a Ph.D. in aerospace engineering from the University ofOklahoma. Robert Braun (NAE) is director of Solar System Exploration at NASA JPL, he is charged with leading the center’s planetary science missions. Prior to this role, he was dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Colorado Boulder. He was the NASA chief technologist in 2010-2011, serving as the principle advisor and advocate for agency-wide technology policy and programs. Formerly, he was a faculty member in the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) where he led a research and education program focused on the design of advanced flight systems and technologies for planetary exploration. Prior to joining the Georgia Tech faculty, Dr. Braun worked for sixteen years at the NASA Langley Research Center. While at NASA, he contributed to the design and flight operations of multiple spaceflight projects including the Mars Pathfinder mission. Dr. Braun is a fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the American Astronautical Society, and the author or co-author of more than 300 technical publications in the fields of atmospheric flight dynamics, planetary exploration systems, multidisciplinary design optimization and systems engineering. Edward F. Crawley (NAE) is the Ford Professor of Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he is also the director of NEET, the New Engineering Educational Transformation. Earlier he was the director of the Bernard M Gordon MIT Engineering Leadership Program. He was a founder of the Systems Design and Management Program at MIT, served as the Department Head of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT, and as the Executive Director of the Cambridge (UK) MIT Institute. His research focuses on the domain of architecture, design and decision support in complex technical systems that involve economic and stakeholder issues. His current domains of architectural research include energy systems, Earth observation and human spaceflight. Crawley is a fellow of the AIAA, and the Royal Aeronautical Society (UK), and is a member of five national academies: in Russia, China, Sweden, the UK and the US. He has served as chairman of the NASA Technology and Commercialization Advisory Committee, and was a member of the Presidential Advisory Committee on the Space Station Redesign, and the U.S. Human Spaceflight Plans (Augustine) Committee. He was a visiting lecturer at the Moscow Aviation Institute, and is a Honorary Professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing. He was a finalist in the NASA Astronaut selection in 1980. He has founded five entrepreneurial companies, and currently sits on several corporate boards. He received an S.B., S.M., and Sc.D. in Aerospace Engineering from MIT. William R. Gray III is the chief test pilot of the USAF Test Pilot School (TPS) at Edwards AFB, California where he is responsible for aircraft and simulator curriculum events. He also provides flight test instruction in the T-38, F-16, and NF-16D variable-stability research aircraft. Gray joined the USAF TPS as its first civil service flight instructor in 2004, after a twenty-year Air Force career that included operational instructor pilot assignments in the T-37 and FB-111A, and flight test assignments in the F-15, F-15E, and F-117. He was the chief test pilot for the source selection flight test campaign that led to the selection of the T-6A. Gray’s last active duty assignment was providing safety oversight for hundreds of USAF flight test programs including the F-22, the CV- 22, the X-32, the X-35, the Global Hawk, and the YAL-1A Airborne Laser. During his time at the USAF TPS he has conducted original research into aircraft handling qualities, created novel flight test techniques and risk mitigation tools, designed and built an in-house reconfigurable flight simulator now used in multiple curriculum events and for unmanned aircraft flight control, modernized or redesigned several dozen complex flight test training events, mentored dozens of student and staff flight test teams conducting real-world concept exploration and risk reduction flight test programs, and introduced a series of talent- challenging flight evaluations into the student selection process. Gray’s flying career has spanned over 35 years, 6,000 hours, and 100 aircraft types including everything from hang gliders to the AV-8B Harrier. Gray has been awarded the AIAA Chanute Flight Test Award, the Society of Experimental Test Pilots (SETP) J. H. Doolittle and Ray E. Tenhoff Awards, and he is a Distinguished Alumnus of the USAF TPS. He is a fellow of SETP and president of its Board of Directors, and is a senior member of AIAA. Gray holds a M.S. in mechanical engineering from California State University at Fresno and a B.S. in physics from the United States Air Force Academy. Lt. Gen (r) Susan J. Helms (NAE) is principal and owner of Orbital Visions, LLC. She was commissioned from the U.S. Air Force Academy in1980, the first class to admit women into the ranks of the cadet corps. Upon graduation, she served as an F-15 and F-16 weapons separation engineer and a flight test engineer. Following completion of her Masters of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University, she served on the faculty of the U.S. Air Force Academy in the Department of Aeronautics. She was subsequently selected to attend the USAF Test Pilot School, Flight Test Engineer Course, Edwards AFB, CA, completing the year long school as a Distinguished Graduate. After graduation, she served as project officer on the CF-18 aircraft as a U.S. Air Force Exchange Officer to the Canadian Aerospace Engineering Test Establishment, at Cold Lake AFB, Alberta, Canada. As a flight test engineer, Lt Gen (R) Helms has flown in 30 types of U.S. and Canadian military aircraft. Selected by NASA in January 1990, Lt Gen (R) Helms became an astronaut in July 1991. On Jan. 13, 1993, then an Air Force major and a member of the space shuttle Endeavour crew, she became the first U.S. military woman in space. She flew on STS-54 (1993), STS-64 (1994), STS-78 (1996) and STS-101 (2000), and served aboard the International Space Station (ISS) as a member of the Expedition-2 crew (2001). A veteran of five space flights, Lt Gen (R) Helms has logged 211 days in space, and accomplished a spacewalk of eight hours, 56 minutes, a world record that stands today. After 12 years at NASA, Lt Gen (R) Helms transferred to Air Force Space Command in 2002. Over the next 12 years, she served in numerous staff positions and commanded the 45th Space Wing at Cape Canaveral AFS, FL. Her staff assignments include tours at Headquarters Air Force Space Command, Air Education and Training Command, and U.S. Strategic Command, where she was the Director of Plans and Policy (J5). From 2011 to 2014 Lt Gen Helms led more than 20,500 personnel responsible for providing missile warning, space superiority, space situational awareness, satellite operations, space launch and range operations. At the same time as Commander, JFCC SPACE, she directed all assigned and attached space forces providing tailored, responsive, local and global space effects in support of national and combatant commander objectives. Lt Gen Helms retired from military service in 2014.