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Ross Alexander
Masters Student in Aeronautics and Astronautics, admitted Autumn 2019
BioRoss B. Alexander is a first-year graduate student at Stanford University pursuing a Master of Science in Aeronautics & Astronautics (M.S. 2021; Ph.D. 2024) and is also the recipient of a Stanford Graduate Fellowship (SGF) in Science & Engineering. Ross' future graduate research is focused on estimation and control of stochastic systems, optimization, statistical machine learning, decision-making systems, autonomy, and reinforcement learning (RL). Ross earned his Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering from Texas A&M University in May 2019. While at Texas A&M, Ross gained significant experience as a teaching assistant for several mathematics and aerospace courses over five semesters. Along with this, Ross acquired not only unique aerospace technical knowledge as a member of the Texas A&M University Sounding Rocketry Team for four years, but also valuable industry and research & development (R&D) experience through three summer internships at two different aerospace simulation R&D companies.
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Juan Alonso
Vance D. and Arlene C. Coffman Professor
BioProf. Alonso is the founder and director of the Aerospace Design Laboratory (ADL) where he specializes in the development of high-fidelity computational design methodologies to enable the creation of realizable and efficient aerospace systems. Prof. Alonso’s research involves a large number of different manned and unmanned applications including transonic, supersonic, and hypersonic aircraft, helicopters, turbomachinery, and launch and re-entry vehicles. He is the author of over 200 technical publications on the topics of computational aircraft and spacecraft design, multi-disciplinary optimization, fundamental numerical methods, and high-performance parallel computing. Prof. Alonso is keenly interested in the development of an advanced curriculum for the training of future engineers and scientists and has participated actively in course-development activities in both the Aeronautics & Astronautics Department (particularly in the development of coursework for aircraft design, sustainable aviation, and UAS design and operation) and for the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering (ICME) at Stanford University. He was a member of the team that currently holds the world speed record for human powered vehicles over water. A student team led by Prof. Alonso also holds the altitude record for an unmanned electric vehicle under 5 lbs of mass.
