cyber-physical infrastructures, with an emphasis on air transportation systems. These include airport congestion control algorithms, air traffic routing and airspace resource allocation methods, machine learning for weather forecasts and flight delay prediction, and methods to mitigate environmental impacts. Her research spans theory and practice, including both algorithm development and real-world field tests. She was a recipient of the American Automatic Control Council’s Donald P. Eckman Award in 2014, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Lawrence Sperry Award in 2012, the inaugural CNA Award for Operational Analysis in 2012, the Kevin Corker Award for Best Paper at the Air Traffic Management R&D Seminar (in 2011, 2021, and 2023), the MIT AIAA Undergraduate Teaching Award in 2019, the MIT AIAA Undergraduate Advising Award in 2014, and the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award in 2008. She is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology (Madras) and earned an MS and a PhD from Stanford University.

Mathias Basner is a professor and the director of the Behavioral Regulation and Health Section in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. Before his tenure at the University of Pennsylvania, he worked at the German Aerospace Center where he headed the Flight Physiology Division in the Institute of Aerospace Medicine between 2007 and 2008. His primary research interests concern the effects of sleep loss on behavior and cognition, population studies on sleep time and waking activities, the effects of traffic noise on sleep and recuperation, and the effects of long-duration space missions on behavior and cognition. Basner is the past president of the International Commission of Biological Effects of Noise. He has published 142 peer-reviewed articles and reviews. He is the senior associate editor of the journal Sleep Health, an editorial board member of the journal Frontiers in Physiology, and a member of the Sleep Research Society and the International Academy of Astronautics. Basner is an advisor to the World Health Organization concerning traffic noise effects on sleep. He served from 2012 to 2014 as a committee member on a Transportation Research Board study on air traffic control facility staffing. He earned his MS in epidemiology from the University of Bielefeld and his MD and PhD from the University of Bochum.

Jason Cude serves as the managing director of Pilot Crew Planning at Delta Air Lines, with the responsibility to develop and execute staffing plans for pilots, determining pilot hiring requirements, building and awarding monthly pilot schedules, and performing data analytics in support of pilot staffing. Cude has 27 years of progressive experience working in the airline industry across multiple disciplines, including crew resource planning, finance, procurement, regional carrier operations, and data analytics. For

most of the past 20 years, Cude’s roles have related to crew staffing and planning, which carries a high level of complexity due to airline crew staffing being required to adhere to federal aviation regulations and labor union contracts, while simultaneously managing operating costs and providing strong operational performance for airline customers. Cude’s educational experience includes both an MBA from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and a BS in aeronautical engineering from Purdue University.

Ginger Evans is the president of Tower Consulting, LLC, and serves as an advisor to various transportation entities including the American Association of Airport Executives and Carlyle Airports Group, based in Washington, DC. She was the director of aviation for two major airports: Denver International Airport (DIA) and O’Hare, Midway International Airports and served as the vice president of engineering for Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA). For O’Hare she made airfield improvements and served on the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA’s) NextGen Advisory Committee. For MWAA, she oversaw a program to rectify irregular taxiway geometry at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA). For DIA, she developed a highly efficient four quadrant airfield configuration and instrumentation with FAA Airports and Air Traffic Divisions. In the private sector, she managed numerous airport capital programs at 15 U.S. airports, 2 Canadian airports, Lisbon, Quito, Mexico City, Hamad International, Abu Dhabi, and Al Duqqam. Transit projects she has worked on include the Dulles Silver Line, Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Oversight, Miami International Airport (MIA) Mover, DIA light rail station, and Hamad International Airport (HIA) Doppelmayr. She served on the Transportation Research Board Executive Committee from 2018 to January 2024. She earned a BS and an MS in civil engineering from Colorado State University.

Karen M. Feigh is a professor and the associate chair for research at the Georgia Institute of Technology Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering with a courtesy appointment in the School of Interactive Computing. She leads a research and education program focused on the computational cognitive modeling and design of cognitive work support systems and technologies to improve the performance of socio-technical systems. Feigh has more than 15 years of relevant research and design experience in fast-time air traffic simulation, airline operation Control Centers, expert systems for air traffic control Towers, human–robot interaction, and the impact of context on undersea warfighters. Recently her work has focused on human–autonomy teaming and the human experience of machine learning across a number of domains. As part of her research, Feigh has published more than 40 scholarly papers in the field of cognitive engineering with

primary emphasis on the aviation industry and decision-making. She is an associate editor for the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics’ (AIAA’s) Journal of Aviation Information Systems and the chair of the AIAA Human Machine Teaming Technical Committee. She previously served on the National Academies’ Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board and as an associate editor for the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society’s Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision-Making, the Vertical Flight Systems Journal, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Transactions on Human Machine Systems. She is a graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology and earned an MPhil in aeronautics at Cranefield University and a PhD in industrial and systems engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Timothy Johnson is an assistant professor at the School of Engineering, Architecture and Aviation at Hampton University (HU) in Virginia. He is the program director for air traffic control at the university and the program manager for the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA’s) Air Traffic-Collegiate Training Initiative for HU. He is also a retired member of the U.S. Air Force, serving 20 years as an Air Traffic Controller. Johnson has been rated in multiple Towers and Radar facilities in the United States and Europe. He has also controlled air traffic on deployments in Iraq and Kuwait. He has a BS and an MS from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and holds an FAA Air Traffic Safety Oversight Credential.

Valerie M. Manning is the president of the aerospace consulting firm VMG Aero. She is a member of the National Academies’ Air Force Studies Board, the Organization of Black Aerospace Professionals Board of Advisors, and the Wings Club Board of Governors. Manning recently served as the chief commercial officer of an electric vertical takeoff and landing and advanced air mobility company. In this role, she led development and the business and commercial strategy, product requirements, government affairs, mobility operations, and in-service support and services. Manning served in executive profit and loss roles at Airbus in Europe, including senior vice president (SVP) of training and flight operations, SVP of customer support, and VP of upgrade services. During this tenure, she had responsibility for the relationships between Airbus and all aircraft owners, operators, pilots, and maintainers of the more than 12,000 Airbus aircraft in service globally on a range of technical, operational, and business subjects. An associate fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Manning is a flight instructor and jet-rated commercial pilot, actively flying in both European Union Aviation Safety Agency and Federal Aviation Administration jurisdictions. A retired U.S. Air Force officer and former McKinsey & Company consultant, Manning graduated from Princeton University with

a BS in mechanical and aerospace engineering and earned her MS and PhD in aeronautics and astronautics from Stanford University.

Norman T. O’Meara is a senior fellow at the Logistics Management Institute, where, over the past 32 years, he has analyzed manpower, workforce planning, and resource allocation issues for a number of top-level governmental entities with emphases on the cabinet-level U.S. Departments of State, Defense (DoD), and Transportation. O’Meara served on several congressionally directed National Research Council committees to study the Federal Aviation Administration’s methods for estimating air traffic controller staffing requirements. He led the analytical team for DoD’s Joint Cross Service Group for Depot Maintenance in support of the department’s base realignment and closure recommendations and testimony before the commission. O’Meara has served with the Army Science Board on a number of studies regarding various issues identified by the Secretary of the Army. He received a BS from the United States Military Academy; MS degrees in mathematics, operations research, and statistics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; and a DSc from The George Washington University.

Philip J. Smith is a professor of integrated systems engineering at The Ohio State University. He is recognized as a leader in research on air traffic flow management, airline operations control, collaborative decision-making, and the design of distributed work systems in the National Airspace System (NAS), as well as in the design of systems for the integrated management of airport surface and airspace constraints. He has extensive expertise in cognitive systems engineering, human factors engineering, artificial intelligence, and human–automation interaction applied to both the design and evaluation of distributed work systems. His research has included work on National Aeronautics and Space Administration and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) initiatives involving departure and arrival flow management, airspace flow programs, collaborative routing, airport surface management, metroplex design, Trajectory Based Operations, and the integration of unmanned aircraft systems into the NAS. He served as a member from 1996 to 1997 of a previous Transportation Research Board committee to study FAA’s methodologies for estimating air traffic controller staffing standards. He earned his MS and PhD at the University of Michigan.

Kay Stanney (NAE) is the chief executive officer and the founder of Design Interactive, Inc., a small business focused on empowering people with innovative technology. She is recognized as a leader in eXtended Reality (XR) systems, especially as related to human performance, cybersickness, and training solutions. Her research has influenced the design of current generation XR headsets, Universal Studios and Disney immersive experiences,

Chevron, ExxonMobil, and Procter & Gamble human-system solutions, as well as numerous military XR systems. In 2019, she was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering for her contributions to human factors engineering through virtual reality technology and strategic leadership. In recognition of her impact on the XR field, Stanney was inducted into the inaugural 2022 class of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Virtual Reality Academy. Previously, she spent 3 years at Intel Corporation and 15 years as a professor of industrial engineering at the University of Central Florida. Stanney served from 1996 to 1997 as a member of a previous Transportation Research Board committee to study the Federal Aviation Admininstration’s methodologies for estimating air traffic controller staffing standards. She received a BS in industrial engineering from State University of New York at Buffalo and earned her MS and PhD in industrial engineering from Purdue University.

John S. Strong is the CSX Professor of Finance and Economics at the Raymond A. Mason School of Business at the College of William & Mary. He was a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow and a Fulbright Scholar. Strong has expertise in the financial and economic analysis of air navigation systems and policy. He has co-authored books on airline deregulation, aviation safety, transport in the former Soviet Union, transport regulation, and air navigation. He has published journal articles and monographs on transport infrastructure, regulation and liberalization, transport safety, and railroad operations and governance. He has worked on transport sector projects for multilateral financial institutions and for the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Government Accountability Office. He served as a consultant to the Transportation Research Board committee on airline deregulation and as a committee member on truck size and weight regulation. He received his MPP and PhD from Harvard and his undergraduate degree from Washington & Lee.