Dr. Pervan is a Professor and Frank Gunsaulus Faculty Fellow in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), where he conducts research on high integrity navigation systems and is Director of the U.S. Department of Transportation Tier-1 University Transportation Center for Assured and Resilient Navigation in Advanced Transportation Systems (CARNATIONS).

Prior to joining the faculty at IIT, he was a spacecraft mission analyst at Hughes Aircraft Company (now Boeing) and a postdoctoral research associate at Stanford University. Prof. Pervan received his B.S. from the University of Notre Dame, M.S. from the California Institute of Technology, and Ph.D. from Stanford University.

He has received the Samuel M. Burka and Johannes Kepler Awards from the Institute of Navigation (ION), IIT Sigma Xi Excellence in University Research Award (twice), IIT University Excellence in Teaching Award, IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society M. Barry Carlton Award, RTCA William E. Jackson Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Albert J. Zahm Prize in Aeronautics. He is a Fellow of the ION and IEEE and former Editor-in-Chief of the ION journal Navigation.