Siva S. Banda

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University of Dayton (Ph.D.)

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Siva Subrahmanyam Banda is an Indian-American aerospace engineer. He was 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.[https://archive.today/20140813040729/http://www.af.mil/AboutUs/Biographies/Display/tabid/225/Article/104876/dr-siva-s-banda.aspx USAF Biography of Siva S. Banda] He has taught at Wright State University, the University of Dayton, and the Air Force Institute of Technology.

Background

Siva Banda was born in Andhra Pradesh, India. {{Citation needed|date= April 2018}} 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. {{Cite web |title=Siva Banda |url=https://daytonaero.com/portfolio-items/siva-banda-phd-afrl/ |website=Dayton Aerospace}} 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".{{Cite journal |title=Aircraft lateral parameter estimation from flight data with unsteady aerodynamic modelling |url=https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.1981-221 |website=ARC|date=1981 |doi=10.2514/6.1981-221 |last1=Wells |first1=W. |last2=Banda |first2=S. |last3=Quam |first3=D. |url-access=subscription }}

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.{{Citation needed|date= April 2018}}

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.{{Citation needed|date= April 2018}} 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. He held the position of Chief Scientist of the Aerospace Systems Directorate at AFRL/WPAFB. He is now retired from the air force and is now a listed expert for Dayton Aerospace. {{Cite web |title=Siva Banda, PhD, ST, DAF (Ret) |url=https://daytonaero.com/portfolio-items/siva-banda-phd-afrl/ |access-date=2024-02-27 |website=Dayton Aerospace |language=en-US}}

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.

=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,[http://www.google.com.ar/patents/US4970638 Patent for control mechanism for unknown systems by deconvolution] and the second for a smart controller[https://patents.google.com/patent/US4949236 Patent for a smart controller] that uses artificial intelligence.

=Awards and honors=

2000 IEEE Control Systems Technology Award[http://www.ieeecss.org/awards/control-systems-technology-award IEEE Control Systems Society member information]
2001 Evening plenary speaker, Special Sessions, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control[http://www.ecs.umass.edu/cdc2001/ Proceedings of the 40th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control]
2002 Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)[http://ieeecss.org/member-activities/css-ieee-fellows#02 List of IEEE Fellows]
2002 Board of Governors, IEEE Control Systems Society[http://ieeecss.org/sites/ieeecss.org/files/2002_may_minutes.pdf Minutes of the Control Systems Society Board of Governors Meeting 7 May 2002][http://ieeecss.org/sites/ieeecss.org/files/2002_december_minutes.pdf Minutes of the Control Systems Society Board of Governors Meeting 9 December 2002]
2004 National Academy of Engineering[http://www.nae.edu/30803.aspx National Academy of Engineering Members]
2010 Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control[https://www.ifac-control.org/awards/ifac-fellows IFAC Fellows]

External links

=Biography=

{{webarchive |date=2012-12-12 |url=https://archive.today/20121212203234/http://www.af.mil/information/bios/bio.asp?bioID=4596 |title=US Air Force official web site}}
[https://archive.today/20240227234042/https://daytonaero.com/portfolio-items/siva-banda-phd-afrl/ Dayton Aerospace Biography] at archive.ph (archived 2024-2-27)