Dr. DeLaurentis leads the System-of-Systems Laboratory (SoSL) which includes graduate and undergraduate students as well as professional research staff. His primary research interests are in the areas of problem formulation, modeling and system analysis methods for aerospace systems and systems-of-systems (SoS), with particular focus on air transportation. His research is conducted under grants from NASA, FAA, Navy, and the Missile Defense Agency. Dr. DeLaurentis is an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, served as Chairman of the AIAA’s Air Transportation Systems (ATS) Technical Committee from 2008–2010, and is Associated Editor for the IEEE Systems Journal. He earned a PhD in Aerospace Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA) in 1998.