Dr Alessandro Gardi received his BSc and MSc degrees in Aerospace Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Milan and a PhD in the same discipline from RMIT University. Dr Gardi is currently a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Engineering of RMIT University, working on Cyber-Physical & Autonomous Systems (CPAS) evolutions for the aerospace, transport and defence domains. Before joining RMIT, he was a doctoral researcher in Avionics and CNS/ATM systems at Cranfield University and a member of the Systems for Green Operations – Integrated Technology Demonstrator (SGO-ITD) of Clean Sky, an initiative funded under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (EU FP7). Dr Gardi is a member of the RMIT CPAS group and the CPAS research program lead for Trusted Autonomy & Human-Machine Systems.