The research group of Purdue AAE Professor Daniel DeLaurentis has several funded graduate research assistant opportunities for outstanding prospective graduate students interested in high-speed systems/mission design research, especially enabled by AI/ML. Due to Department of Defense (DoD) regulations related to this research area, successful applicants for some of these projects will be US citizens.

You can see a glimpse of some ongoing projects on the  "Research/Ongoing Projects" page of this website, including the following:
 

• Mission Engineering-based Integrated Acquisition Portfolio Review (IAPR) Decision-Support Tool
• Mission-Aware Integrated Digital Transformation for Operational Advantage
• Pilot Program Design to Test Innovative Approaches in Negotiating Intellectual Property
• Studies of Disruption in Space Technologies
• Operations limits for passenger-carrying Urban Air Mobility missions
• Wolfpack: Optimal Trajectory Generation

If you meet the above qualifications, please apply for the Purdue AAE PhD program and then contact Prof DeLaurentis once your application is submitted.

Dan DeLaurentis
Chief Scientist of the DoD Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC);  
www.sercuarc.org
Director- Institute for Global Security and Defense Innovation (i-GSDI)
Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics
Purdue University, 203 S. Martin Jischke Drive, Mann Hall 266
West Lafayette, IN, 47907   
(765) 494 069