INFORMS Aviation Applications Section Webinar Series

Title: Optimization Problems in eVTOL Design and Operations

Speaker: Dr. John-Paul Clarke, The University of Texas at Austin
 
Speaker Bio: John-Paul Clarke is a professor of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at The University of Texas at Austin, where he holds the Ernest Cockrell Jr. Memorial Chair in Engineering. Previously, he was a faculty member at the Georgia Tech and MIT; Vice President of Strategic Technologies at United (now Raytheon) Technologies; and a researcher at Boeing and NASA JPL. He has also co-founded multiple companies, most recently Universal Hydrogen – a company dedicated to the development of a comprehensive carbon-free solution for aviation. Dr. Clarke is an expert in the development and use of stochastic models and optimization algorithms to improve the efficiency and robustness of complex systems, with a particular focus on aviation. For example, his work has led to the development of the world’s first fully autopilot-coupled continuous descent arrival procedure to be used in daily operations; airline schedules that are “robust” to poor weather and/or aircraft failures; and a state-of-the art algorithm to maximize the likelihood of success for a portfolio of research and development projects (or financial assets) with uncertain future performance and schedule.
 

📅 Date: February 18, 2025

⏰ Time: 6 AM San Francisco / 9 AM New York / 3 PM Amsterdam / 10 PM Beijing

 
 
 

 

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