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Siva Subrahmanyam Banda | |
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శివ ఎస్.బందా | |
 Siva S. Banda | |
| Born | 1951 |
| Nationality | India, United States |
| Education | Regional Engineering College (B.S.E.E.) Indian Institute of Science (M.S.) Wright State University (M.S.) University of Dayton (Ph.D.) |
| Occupation | Engineer |
| Children | Kevin K. Banda[2][3] |
| Engineering career | |
| Discipline | Aerospace Engineering |
| Projects | cooperative control of multiple unmanned air vehicles, guidance and control of access-to-space vehicles, and aerodynamic flow control |
| Awards | Elected to National Academy of Engineering; Fellow of IEEE and IFAC; General Benjamin D. Foulois Award; IEEE Control Systems Technology Award[1]; Royal Aeronautical Society International Silver Medal; Meritorious Senior Professional Presidential Rank Award; President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service; Nathaniel B. Nichols Medal |
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.[4] He has twice received Presidential awards and national recognition for his work. He has received international recognition in the form of the Nathaniel B. Nichols Medal[5] and the Royal Aeronautic Society's International Silver Medal. He is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)[6] and of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC).[7]
Background
[edit]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
[edit]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. [4]
Banda then served as group leader and program manager before being promoted to branch chief, a position in which he served until 1996. He then served as technical leader for the Air Vehicles Directorate at the United States Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) at WPAFB until he became the Director of the Control Science Center of Excellence and Senior Scientist for the Air Vehicles Directorate. Thereafter, 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[4].
Professional accomplishments
[edit]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 IEEE. 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[4].
Patents
[edit]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[8], and the second for a smart controller[9] using artificial intelligence.
Books and Publications
[edit]- Adams, Richard J.; Buffington, James M.; Sparks, Andrew G.; Banda, Siva S. (1994). Robust Multivariable Flight Control. Springer-Verlag GmbH. ISBN 9783540199069.
Awards and honors
[edit]- 2001 Royal Aeronautical Society Silver Medal
- 2002 Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)[6]
- 2002 Board of Governors, IEEE Control Systems Society[10][11]
- 2002 General Chairman, AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference
- 2004 National Academy of Engineering[12]
- 2004 Meritorious Senior Professional Presidential Rank Award[13]
- 2010 President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service
- 2010 Fellow, International Federation of Automatic Control[7]
- 2011 Nathaniel Nichols Medal, International Federation of Automatic Control[5]
See also
[edit]External links
[edit]Biography
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ IEEE Control Systems Society member information
- ^ Kevin Banda bio and CV
- ^ University of MO faculty page
- ^ a b c d USAF Biography of Siva S. Banda
- ^ a b IFAC list of winners of the Nathaniel B. Nichols medal
- ^ a b List of IEEE Fellows
- ^ a b List of IFAC Fellows
- ^ Patent for control mechanism for unknown systems by deconvolution
- ^ Patent for a smart controller
- ^ Minutes of the Control Systems Society Board of Governors Meeting 7 May 2002
- ^ Minutes of the Control Systems Society Board of Governors Meeting 9 December 2002
- ^ National Academy of Engineering Members
- ^ USAF announcement of 2004 winners of Presidential Rank Awards
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