Teams
Eight institutions, one integrated effort
Universities, an industry partner, and a community college, working across aviation, autonomy, control, machine learning, and cybersecurity.
- GWUUniversity
The George Washington University
Washington, DC
Lead institution. Perception-based drone delivery and landing, AI-based separation assurance, and the security of air traffic control voice communication.
Peng Wei
UC-01UC-02UC-04UC-05 - VanderbiltUniversity
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN
Networked multi-UAV simulation, Remote ID spoofing detection, and machine-learning anomaly detection for small unmanned aircraft.
Bryan C. Ward · Gautam Biswas
UC-03UC-05UC-08UC-07 - PurdueUniversity
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN
Game-theoretic and learning-based foundations for secure, fair, and decentralized coordination among airspace users.
Vijay Gupta · Mahsa Ghasemi
UC-02UC-07 - UT AustinUniversity
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX
Information-shaping control, secure communication, and robust coordination for autonomous aircraft and dense airspace operations.
Ufuk Topcu
UC-02UC-03UC-07 - UC IrvineUniversity
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA
Security analysis of camera- and AI-based drone autonomy, from target tracking and precision landing to vision-language models.
Alfred Chen
UC-01 - TSUUniversity
Tennessee State University
Nashville, TN
Physics-based simulation of urban air mobility environments and resilient emergency landing for eVTOL aircraft and drones.
Amir Shirkhodaie
UC-06UC-01 - CollinsIndustry partner
Collins Aerospace
Cedar Rapids, IA
Industry partner contributing aerospace expertise, zero-trust architecture patterns, and formally verified security assessment.
Isaac Amundson · Heber Herencia-Zapana
UC-08UC-05 - NVCCCommunity college
Northern Virginia Community College
Annandale, VA
Community-college research pathway. Student interns investigate drone command-and-control link security alongside GWU researchers.
Kwabena Konadu
UC-05