Raghvendra V. Cowlagi is Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering at WPI. Prior to joining WPI-AE in 2013, he obtained a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Tech; worked as a postdoctoral researcher at MIT; and worked as a member of the research staff at Aurora Flight Sciences Corp. in Cambridge, MA. His research interests and expertise are in the area of motion planning, control, and estimation for the autonomy of mobile vehicles, and his research work is published in several leading journal articles and peer-reviewed conference papers. He serves as Associate Editor for Aerospace Science & Technology, the IEEE Transactions on Aerospace & Electronic Systems, the ASME Journal of Autonomous Vehicles and Systems, and the IEEE-CSS Conference Editorial Board. He is a member of the AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Controls Technical Committee. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, a Senior Member of AIAA, and a member of ASME.