Siva S Banda

Siva Subrahmanyam Banda (born 1951) is an IndianAmerican aerospace engineer He is Director of the Control Science Center of Excellence and senior scientist for Control Theory for the Air Vehicles Directorate at the United States Air Force Research Laboratory at WrightPatterson Air Force Base He has taught at Wright State University, the University of Dayton, and the Air Force Institute of Technology
Dr Banda joined the US Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory at WrightPatterson Air Force Base in 1981 as an aerospace research engineer in the Flight Controls Division He started his career as an inhouse researcher He then served as group leader and program manager before being promoted to branch chief He now serves as the Director of the Control Science Center of Excellence and Senior Scientist for the Air Vehicles Directorate at the United States Air Force Research Laboratory at WrightPatterson Air Force Base He has also acted as a consultant, mentor, and technical leader for basic research in flight control systems He has made pioneering and lasting contributions to the areas of robust multivariable control theory dealing with uncertainties, online system identification, and reconfigurable flight control