DINAMO GROUP - Key Persons


Adina Golden

Job Titles:
  • Student, EECS

Adrián Lozano-Durán

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Draper Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Ajay Gill

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate

Alan H Epstein

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Amelia Earhart

Job Titles:
  • Fellow, Zonta International

Andreea Bobu

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Development Professor

Andrés Forero

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant

Anthony Favier

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate

Anthony Zolnik

Job Titles:
  • Infrastructure Manager

Arthur Brown

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate

Beata Shuster

Job Titles:
  • Student Services Assistant

Brian C Williams

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Brian L Wardle

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Britton M Bradley

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant

Bryt Bradley

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant

Brían O'Conaill

Job Titles:
  • Director of Administration
  • Finance

Carmen Guerra-Garcia

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Charles Stark Draper Career Development Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Charles M Oman

Job Titles:
  • Senior Lecturer

Charles Stark Draper

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Career Development Professor, Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Christian Hofmann

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate

Christopher Kurt Fourie

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate

Chuchu Fan

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Fast and Guaranteed Safe Controller Synthesis for Nonlinear Vehicle Models International Conference on Computer Aided Verification ( 2020 )
  • Leonardo Career Development Professor in Engineering

Claudia A Forero-Sloan

Job Titles:
  • Financial Officer
  • Financial Coordinator

Daniel E. Hastings

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • MIT Vice Chancellor ( Interim )
  • Professor

Danielle Coogan

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate

Danielle Wood

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Dava J. Newman

Job Titles:
  • Director of MIT Media Lab
  • Professor

David A Mindell

Job Titles:
  • Frances and David Dibner Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing
  • Professor

David L Darmofal

Job Titles:
  • Director of Digital Learning / Chair, Undergraduate Committee
  • Professor

de Caminos, Canales

Job Titles:
  • Ingeniero

Denise Phillips

Job Titles:
  • Diversity Officer

Douglas Purdy


Echo Aodhan

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant

Edward F Crawley

Job Titles:
  • Professor ( Post Tenure )

Edward M Greitzer

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Eric Evans

Job Titles:
  • Professor of the Practice
  • Professor of the Practice, AeroAstro and the Security Studies Program

Erinn Taylor de Barroso

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Program Administrator

Esther L Allen

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant

Eunice Nganga

Job Titles:
  • Human Resources Administrator

Ewan S. Douglas

Job Titles:
  • Research Affiliate / Research

Eytan H. Modiano

Job Titles:
  • Professor
  • Professors
  • Richard Cockburn Maclaurin Professor in Aeronautics and Astronautics

Florian Allroggen

Job Titles:
  • Exec Director, Aerospace Climate & Susta / Research

Frances M Marrone

Job Titles:
  • Assistant

Gabrielle Hoyte


H.N. Slater

Job Titles:
  • Professor in Aeronautics and Astronautics
  • Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT
Edward M. Greitzer is the H. N. Slater Professor, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT, where he has been Director, Gas Turbine Laboratory and Interim Department Head. He received BA, SM and PhD degrees from Harvard University. Prior to joining MIT he was with United Technologies Corporation (UTC), at Pratt & Whitney, and, more recently, Director, Aeromechanical, Chemical, and Fluid Systems at UTRC. His research includes gas turbines, turbomachinery, propulsion system-airframe integration, active control of fluid systems, vortex flows, and industry-university collaboration. He was the MIT lead on the Cambridge-MIT Silent Aircraft Initiative, the Principal Investigator for the NASA sponsored D8 "double-bubble" aircraft project, and the MIT Founding Head of the Engineering Product Development Pillar at Singapore University of Technology and Design, a new university developed collaboratively by MIT and Singapore. Dr. Greitzer is a four-time recipient of the ASME Gas Turbine Award and a recipient of the ASME Freeman Scholar Award in Fluids Engineering, the International Gas Turbine Institute (IGTI) Scholar Award, and publication awards from AIAA and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. He has received the IGTI Aircraft Engine Technology Award, the Air Force Exceptional Civilian Service Award, the AIAA Reed Aeronautics Award, the ASME R. Tom Sawyer Award, MIT's Everett Moore Baker Award for undergraduate teaching, and (twice) his departmental undergraduate teaching award. Dr. Greitzer has authored approximately 90 papers and is lead author of the book Internal Flow: Concepts and Applications (Cambridge University Press). He has been a Visiting Fellow of the Japan Society for Promotion of Science and twice an Overseas Fellow at Cambridge University and is an AIAA Honorary Fellow, an ASME Fellow, a National Academy of Engineering member, an Honorary Professor, Beihang University, and an International Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.

Hamsa Balakrishnan

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean, MIT School of Engineering
  • Professor

Ian A Waitz

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Imran Hayat

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate

Jacob Arkin

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate

Jaime Peraire

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Janine Liberty

Job Titles:
  • Communications Manager

Javier de Luis

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer / Research

Jayant S. Sabnis

Job Titles:
  • Senior Lecturer

Jean Sofronas


Jeffrey A. Hoffman

Job Titles:
  • Professor of the Practice
  • Professor of the Practice of Aerospace Engineering Director, Human Systems Lab / Director, Massachusetts Space Grant

Jei Lee Freeman

Job Titles:
  • Financial Officer
  • Financial Officer / Research

Jen-Hung Fang

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate

Jennifer Leith


Jerome C. Hunsaker

Job Titles:
  • Professor
  • Professor / Systems Design & Engineering
  • Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
  • Undergraduate Committee Chair

John Deyst

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Jonathan P. How

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Julie A Shah

Job Titles:
  • Department Head
  • Department Head / Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Karen M Bruce

Job Titles:
  • Infrastructure Assistant / Research

Kate Reynolds

Job Titles:
  • Senior Leadership Giving Officer

Kathryn A Fischer

Job Titles:
  • Financial Assistant
  • Financial Officer

Kerri Cahoy

Job Titles:
  • Head, Space Sector / Chair, Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Committee Director, Small Satellite Collaborative Sheila Evans Widnall ( 1960 ) Professor
  • Professor

Kunal Garg

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate

Lonnie Grove Petersen

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Luca Carlone

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Boeing Career Development Professor in Aeronautics and Astronautics / Principal Investigator, Laboratory for Information & Decision Systems ( LIDS )

Mac Van Valkenburg

Job Titles:
  • Research Award

Manuel F Soler Arnedo

Job Titles:
  • Visiting Professor

Maria Auday


Marie Stuppard

Job Titles:
  • Academic Program Administrator

Mark Drela

Job Titles:
  • Professor

MaryAnn Carey

Job Titles:
  • Events Planner

Masha Folk

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Charles Stark Draper Career Development Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Matthew Boyd

Job Titles:
  • Research Engineer / Research

Michael Cory Hagenow

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Fellow

Miguel Forero

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant

Moe Z Win

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Moriba Jah

Job Titles:
  • Visiting Associate Professor

Nancy G Leveson

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Nancy Leveson is Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and also Professor of Engineering Systems at MIT. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Prof. Leveson conducts research on the topics of system safety, software safety, software and system engineering, and human-computer interaction. In 1999, she received the ACM Allen Newell Award for outstanding computer science research and in 1995 the AIAA Information Systems Award for "developing the field of software safety and for promoting responsible software and system engineering practices where life and property are at stake." In 2005 she received the ACM Sigsoft Outstanding Research Award. She has published more than 200 research papers and is the author of two books, "Safeware: System Safety and Computers," published by Addison-Wesley (1995), and Engineering a Safer World, published by MIT Press (2012). She consults extensively in industries on ways to prevent accidents.

Neza Sheikh


Ngan Le

Job Titles:
  • Financial Officer

Nicholas Roy

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Nicolas Gomez Vega

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate

Olga Novak


Olivier L. de Weck

Job Titles:
  • Associate Department Head
  • Professor

Pamela Fradkin

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant

Paulo C Lozano

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Prabhat Hajela

Job Titles:
  • Visiting Professor

Qiqi Wang

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Quentin Alexander

Job Titles:
  • Financial Coordinator
  • Financial Coordinator / Research

Rachael Draper

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Program Administrator
  • Graduate Program Administrator - Admissions and Outreach

Rachel Cohen


Raul A Radovitzky

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Richard Cockburn Maclaurin

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of Graduate Committee
  • Head, Computing Sector
  • Professor in Aeronautics and Astronautics
  • Richard Cockburn Maclaurin Professor in Aeronautics and Astronautics

Richard Linares

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Robert H Liebeck

Job Titles:
  • Professor of the Practice

Robert J Hansman Jr

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Robin Courchesne-Sato

Job Titles:
  • Senior Administrative Assistant

Rudrapatna V Ramnath

Job Titles:
  • Senior Lecturer

Russell L Tedrake

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Sara Seager

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Sertac Karaman

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Shashank Deshpande

Job Titles:
  • Student, AeroAstro

Sheila Evans Widnall

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Sonya Smith

Job Titles:
  • Visiting Professor

Steven R Hall

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Steven R. Allmaras

Job Titles:
  • Research Engineer / Research

T. Wilson

Job Titles:
  • Professor in Aeronautics

Tamires Meireles

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant

Terry J. Kohler

Job Titles:
  • Director, Wright Brothers Wind Tunnel
  • Professor

Timothy Holder

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Fellow

Todd R Billings

Job Titles:
  • Senior Technical Instructor

Vasha DuTell

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Postdoctoral Associate

Victor Rodriguez Fernandez

Job Titles:
  • Visiting Assistant Professor

Wesley L Harris

Job Titles:
  • Professor

William E. Leonhard

Job Titles:
  • Professor
  • Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Wright Brothers Wind Tunnel

Job Titles:
  • Director, Wright Brothers Wind Tunnel
  • Professor

Youssef M Marzouk

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Yuval Harduf

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate

Zachary C Cordero

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Zoltán S. Spakovszky

Job Titles:
  • Head, Air Sector
  • Professor