Siva S. Banda

Siva Subrahmanyam Banda

Siva S. Banda
Born 1951
Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India
Nationality India, United States
Education Regional Engineering College, Warangal (B.S.E.E.)
Indian Institute of Science (M.S.)
Wright State University (M.S.)
University of Dayton (Ph.D.)
Children Kevin K. Banda[1][2]

Engineering career

Engineering discipline Aerospace Engineering
Significant projects cooperative control of multiple unmanned air vehicles, guidance and control of access-to-space vehicles, and aerodynamic flow control
Significant awards Elected to National Academy of Engineering, General Benjamin D. Foulois Award, IEEE Control Systems Technology Award, Royal Aeronautical Society Silver Medal, Meritorious Senior Professional Presidential Rank Award

Siva Subrahmanyam Banda (born 1951) is an Indian-American aerospace engineer. He is Director of the Control Science Center of Excellence and Chief Scientist for the Aerospace Systems Directorate at the United States Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.[3] He has taught at Wright State University, the University of Dayton, and the Air Force Institute of Technology.

Background

Siva Banda was born in Andhra Pradesh, India. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the Regional Engineering College, Warangal, India in 1974, followed by a Master of Science degree in aerospace engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India in 1976. He then came to the United States and attended college briefly at the University of Cincinnati before transferring to Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, where he earned another Master of Science in systems engineering in 1978. Banda continued to further his studies and completed his Ph.D. in aerospace engineering at the University of Dayton in 1980. His doctoral dissertation was entitled Maximum likelihood identification of aircraft lateral parameters with unsteady aerodynamic modeling.

Career

Banda joined the U.S. Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB) in 1981 as an aerospace research engineer in the Flight Controls Division. He started his career as an in-house researcher.

Banda then served as group leader and program manager before being promoted to branch chief, a position in which he served from 1995 thru 1996. From 1996 thru 2000, he served as technical leader for the Air Vehicles Directorate at the United States Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) at WPAFB. From 2000 thru 2011, he served as the Director of the Control Science Center of Excellence and Senior Scientist for the Air Vehicles Directorate at AFRL at WPAFB. From 2011 thru 2012, he served as the Chief Scientist for Air Vehicles Directorate, AFRL, WPAFB. Currently he is Chief Scientist of the Aerospace Systems Directorate at AFRL/WPAFB.[3]

Professional accomplishments

Dr. Banda has authored or co-authored more than 200 articles published in peer-reviewed journals, 15 technical reports and books, and has delivered more than 120 lectures. He is a technical adviser to the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Office of Naval Research, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Research Council and several leading academic institutes worldwide. In the academic arena he has served as thesis adviser and adjunct professor at the Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright State University, and the University of Dayton. He serves on a variety of technical, organizational, and award committees for professional societies including the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He served on the board of Editors for the Advances in Design and Control series published by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. He is a Fellow of the Air Force Research Laboratory, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the Royal Aeronautical Society.[3]

Patents

Dr. Banda holds two patents - one for a control mechanism for unknown systems which can be applied to an arbitrary electromechanical system without prior knowledge of its transfer function,[4] and the second for a smart controller[5] using artificial intelligence.

Awards and honors

See also

External links

Biography

References

  1. ↑ Kevin Banda bio and CV
  2. ↑ University of MO faculty page
  3. 1 2 3 USAF Biography of Siva S. Banda
  4. ↑ Patent for control mechanism for unknown systems by deconvolution
  5. ↑ Patent for a smart controller
  6. ↑ IEEE Control Systems Society member information
  7. ↑ Proceedings of the 40th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
  8. ↑ List of IEEE Fellows
  9. ↑ Minutes of the Control Systems Society Board of Governors Meeting 7 May 2002
  10. ↑ Minutes of the Control Systems Society Board of Governors Meeting 9 December 2002
  11. ↑ National Academy of Engineering Members
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