Our People

Adler is an M.S. at the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Purdue University, having obtained his B.S. in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering in 2023. He originates from Jakarta, Indonesia. His research work centers around advanced air mobility concept of operations, where he implements urban air mobility (UAM) ridesharing models to investigate economial and environmental limits to the deployment of large-scale ridesharing-enabled UAM operations across various urban areas in the US. He has previous experience in the analysis of remote sensing datasets from his undergraduate years.

Research interests: Urban air mobility, aviation sustainability, systems design & optimization, networks, fleet planning

Edward is a Ph.D. student at Purdue School of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Edward holds a bachelor's and master's degree at National Cheng Kung University Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics with experience in the design of Stirling engine and aerospace heat exchangers.

Research Interests: System architectures of advanced aerial mobility and space structures.

Rod is an astrophysicist from Brazil with a M.Sc. in Space Engineering focused in Space Mechanics & Controls. Rod also specialized in AI by working as a programming teacher and data scientist, and co-founded SEARCH, the first organization at Purdue dedicated to astronaut-related initiatives. Currently, Rod is working on the development of space missions from a multi-level perspective. In the systems level, his research concentrates on exploring the design space of innovative space systems via graph representation and generative design. In the System-of-Systems level, multiple systems are simulated in different mission architecture configurations towards optimizing mission metrics. In his free time, he enjoys outdoors activities like hiking, as well as instrumental music and philosophical books.

Research interests: Space Mission Architectures; Generative Design; Deep Learning; Explainable AI; Space System Design; Optimization.