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Academic
Degrees
1994 B. Sc., Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Technion
- Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel (Cum Laude)
1998 Master during the course of a direct Ph. D. program
Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of
Technology, Haifa, Israel
2000 Ph.D., Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Technion -
Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Academic Appointments
Aug. 2009-Present Associate Professor,
Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Technion
Sep. 2003-Aug. 2009 Senior Lecturer,
Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Technion
July 2002-Aug. 2003
Research Staff Member, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
Feb. 2001-July 2001
Lecturer, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton
University, Princeton, NJ, USA
July 2000-June 2002
Research Associate, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton
University, Princeton, NJ, USA
Professional Experience
June 1998 - May 2000 Project Guidance and Control
Group Leader, RAFAEL
Dec. 1994 - June 1998 Guidance and Control
Research Engineer, RAFAEL
Technion Activities
Oct. 2000 - Present Member, The Asher
Spacer Research Institute
Jan. 2004 - Present Member and
Treasurer, The Faculty Association Acting Committee
June 2005 - Present Judge,
Disciplinary Panel for Faculty
Public Professional Activities
Oct. 2005 - Present Member, American
Astronautical Society Spaceflight Mechanics Technical Committee
Sep. 2005 - Present Series Editor,
Elsevier Astrodynamics Book Series
April
2005
Guest Editor (with A. Tsourdos and B. White), Proc. of the I MECH E
Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering, Volume 219, Issue 2
Sep. 2004 - Present American Institute
of Aeronautics and
Astronautics Associate Editor for the American Control Conference
Oct. 2003 - Present Book Reviewer for
Elsevier Science
March 2002 - Present Member, American Institute of
Aeronautics and Astronautics Guidance, Navigation and Control
Technical Committee
1999 - Present
Journal Reviewer: Automatica; Astrophysics and Space Science; AIAA
Journal of Aerospace Computing, Information and Communication; AIAA
Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics; IEEE Transactions on
Control Systems Technology; IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and
Electronic Systems; IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and
Cybernetics; International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control;
Control Engineering Practice; Optimal Control Applications and
Methods; Proceedings of the I Mech Part G: Journal of Aerospace
Engineering; Applied Soft Computing; Planetary and Space Science;
Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy; International Journal
of Systems Science; IEE Proceedings on Control Theory and
Applications.
1998 - Present
Conference Reviewer: AIAA Guidance, Navigation and
Control Conference; American Control Conference; IEEE Conference on
Decision and Control; Israel Annual Conference on Aerospace
Sciences.
Membership in Professional Societies
Associate Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and
Astronautics (AIAA)
Member, American Astronautical Society (AAS)
Member, Sigma Xi
Affiliate Member, Division of Dynamical Astronomy, American
Astronomical Society
Honors
Gutwirth Award for Excellence in Scientific Research, 2008.
Best Paper in Session, 2005 IEEE Mediterranean Control Conference.
Best Paper in Session, 2005 American Control Conference.
Felicia and Samuel Isler Academic Lectureship, 2005-2006.
Evelyn and Salman Grand Academic Lectureship, 2004.
Technion Scholarship for Post-Doctoral Research, 2001.
Top 10 Papers, AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference,
2001.
Group Achievement Award, RAFAEL, Missile Division, 2000.
Quarterly Professional Merit Award, RAFAEL, Missile Division, 1999.
Quarterly Professional Merit Award, RAFAEL, Missile Division, 1997.
Technion President's Merit Award, Technion, Israel Institute of
Technology, 1993.
RECENT Research Grants (2004-present)
2006 - 2009 European Framework Programme 6 (FP6), ``FastWing:
Foldable Adaptable Steerable Textile Wing for Delivery of Capital
Loads"
2005 - 2006 Galileo Joint Undertaking, GEO6, ``Development of
Optimal Spacecraft Formation Flying Architectures Utilizing
GNSS-Based Relative Positioning"
2005-2006 Israel Ministry of Defense, ``SAR
Digital Interferometry"
2004-2007 Israel Ministry of Science
Infrastructure Program, ``Design of a
Distributed Spacecraft System for High-Resolution
Space-Borne Imaging"
2004-2005 Institute for Future Defense Research,
``Mission Execution using a Group of Cooperative UAVs"
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