Siva Subrahmanyam Banda
Siva S. Banda
Born
Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India
EducationRegional Engineering College, Warangal (B.S.E.E.)
Indian Institute of Science (M.S.)
Wright State University (M.S.)
University of Dayton (Ph.D.)
OccupationEngineer
Children1
Engineering career
DisciplineAerospace Engineering

Siva Subrahmanyam Banda 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.[1] He has taught at Wright State University, the University of Dayton, and the Air Force Institute of Technology.

Banda was elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2003 for leadership in the development of multivariable control theory and its applications to a range of military vehicles.

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. [2] 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 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".[3]

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 the group leader and program manager before being promoted to branch chief, a position in which he served from 1995 to 1996. From 1996 to 2000, he served as the technical leader for the Air Vehicles Directorate at the United States Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) at WPAFB. From 2000 to 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 to 2012, he served as the Chief Scientist for Air Vehicles Directorate, AFRL, WPAFB. Currently, he holds the position of Chief Scientist of the Aerospace Systems Directorate at AFRL/WPAFB.[1]

Professional accomplishments

Banda 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, and National Research Council. He serves on 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.[1]

Patents

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] that uses artificial intelligence.

Awards and honors

See also

Biography

References

  1. 1 2 3 USAF Biography of Siva S. Banda
  2. ↑ "Siva Banda". Dayton Aerospace.
  3. ↑ Wells, W.; Banda, S.; Quam, D. (1981). "Aircraft lateral parameter estimation from flight data with unsteady aerodynamic modelling". ARC. doi:10.2514/6.1981-221.
  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
  12. ↑ IFAC Fellows
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