Dr. Emaid A. Abdul-Retha is a Member of the Board of Directors at Oxford Aerospace Ltd. He holds Bachelor, Masters, and PhD degrees in Aeronautical Engineering. His research areas include jet engine automatic control systems and modeling of gas turbine engines. He has over 34 years of aviation experience including 20 years of direct experience with unmanned aircraft vehicles. He has been a chief engineer for ten years working on modifications to the MiG-21 and MiG 29 jet fighter aircraft. Dr. Abdul-Retha has supervised several research centers and projects related to aviation and unmanned aircraft and has performed research on many different types of aircraft (fighter, transport, helicopter, agriculture, light, and general aviation). His research related to unmanned aerial vehicles includes the design, manufacture, integration, and testing of many different types (fixed wing UAV, VTOL UAV, jet powered UAV). Dr Emaid was an advisor to the small unmanned aircraft vehicle research program at the National Aerospace University in Kharkov, Ukraine. From 2008 to 2010 he provided consulting services to the King Abdullah Design and Development Bureau (KADDB) in Jordan, where he managed a VTOL UAV research program. He is presently the R&D Director at Jordan Aerospace industries (JAI) where he has established a comprehensive UAV program. He is a member of the Board of Directors at Jordan Advance Remote Systems (JARS), a company that specializes in UAVs. Dr Abdul-Retha is a member of Faculty at Unmanned Vehicle University where he teaches the UAV Propulsion Methods and Selection course and supervises doctoral research programs.

Dr. Pascual Marqués is a Member of the Board of Directors at Oxford Aerospace Ltd., President of Marques Aviation Ltd. – UK and former International Director (UK) of Unmanned Vehicle University – USA. Dr. Marqués holds an MPhil and a PhD degrees in Engineering Mechanics. At Marques Aviation Ltd., Dr. Marqués oversees the design, R&D, and manufacturing of the MA THOR and MA AirDefence unmanned aircraft series. Dr. Marqués’ research interests are in the fields of Aerodynamics Optimization and Flight Dynamics and he has published extensively on both subject areas. He has board level experience in executive, advisory and Non-Executive Director capacities in the aviation industry and university sector. Dr. Marqués is the Editor-in- Chief of the International Journal of Unmanned Systems Engineering (IJUSEng). He is also the Chair of the World Congress on Unmanned Systems Engineering (WUEng) and the International Aerospace Engineering Conference (IAEC). Dr. Marques is a Member of the Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS) and the Institute of Directors (IoD).

Dr. Elena Spiridon is a Member of the Board of Directors at Oxford Aerospace Ltd. Dr. Spiridon obtained her PhD in Psychology from Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom. She is a Chartered Psychologist, endorsed by the British Psychological Society. Elena was awarded her BSc (Hons) in Psychology (Grade: First Class) by the University of Lancashire, for which she was also granted the GBR British Psychological Society Award for the student with the highest average mark. Elena is a recognised fellow teacher of the Higher Education Academy with experience of teaching at this level exceeding 10 years at various UK institutions. She regularly teaches Psychology at several UK universities, and she lectures in Human-Machine Interaction at Unmanned Vehicle University, USA. Her research interests are in the field of Psycho-physiology and Human-machine interaction and she has participated in world-class research projects (PhD research funded by the European Commission within the 7th Framework Programme (FP7) as part of the REFLECT project). Elena has published her work extensively in leading Psycho-physiology, Biological Psychology, Affective Computing, and Intelligent Interaction journals. She is a member of the Conference Scientific Committee for the World Congress on Unmanned Systems Engineering (WUEng) and the International Aerospace Engineering Conference (IAEC). Elena is a Non-Executive Director at Marques Aviation Ltd.

Prof. Cohen is a distinguished Member of the Academic Advisory Board at Oxford Aerospace Academy, United Kingdom. Dr. Cohen is Department Head of Aerospace Engineering, co-Director of the UAV MASTER Lab, and Professor of Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics at the College of Engineering and Applied Science (CEAS) at the University of Cincinnati (UC). Dr. Cohen is recipient of the CEAS Distinguished Researcher Award. The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics has honored Prof. Cohen for his “advancement and application of artificial intelligence to large scale, meaningful and challenging aerospace-related problems.” At UC, he teaches and conducts research in the following areas: intelligent systems, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), Fuzzy Logic control, cooperative multi-agent decision making, genetic fuzzy large-scale optimization, feedback flow control and system identification. At Oxford Aerospace Academy, Dr. Cohen leads a corporate course in the Utilization of UAVs in Disaster Management aimed at emergency responders with focus on predictive modeling for enhanced incident commander decision making and resource allocation. Dr. Cohen advises the Academy’s Aircraft Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) division.

Capt. Vince Donohue is a distinguished Member of the Academic Advisory Board at Oxford Aerospace Academy, United Kingdom. He holds a Masters in Unmanned Systems Engineering and is the Founder and President of Vortex UAS providing pilot training, consultation and services for Unmanned Aircraft Systems. He has been a professional pilot for over a decade, and is presently the chief pilot of a corporate flight department in the USA. Capt. Donohue has accrued 4 type ratings in airline, charter and corporate aviation and he is a Certified Flight Instructor. He served as a Naval Flight Officer (1988 – 1992) aboard USS Midway and USS Independence in squadron VAW 115. He has accrued 500 Hours as NFO in 130 sorties; 70 sorties in Operations Desert Shield/Desert Storm. Capt. Donohue was awarded several personal decorations including the Navy Commendation Medal with Combat V for meritorious service during combat in the Persian Gulf War as an Aircraft Control Officer on the E-2C Hawkeye. He is a founding member of the AUVSI Heartland Chapter encompassing the states of Illinois and Wisconsin. At Oxford Aerospace Academy, the Vortex UAS Team provide drone pilot training, Part 107 test preparation, and aeronautical sciences and air law expertise.

Prof. Agarwal is a distinguished Member of the Academic Advisory Board of Oxford Aerospace Academy, United Kingdom. Prof. Agarwal is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society of London. The Fellowship represents the world’s highest distinction for aerospace achievement and was awarded to Prof. Agarwal in 2015 in recognition of his outstanding leadership in education and research, and for advancing the development of a wide range of flying vehicles through ingenious applications of computational fluid dynamics. He is a Fellow of 22 other societies. Prof. Agarwal is the William Palm Professor of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, USA since 2001. Over a period of 40 years, Professor Agarwal has worked in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Computational Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) and Electromagnetics, Computational Aeroacoustics, Multidisciplinary Design and Optimization, Rarefied Gas Dynamics and Hypersonic Flows, Bio-Fluid Dynamics, and Flow and Flight Control. He is the author and co-author of over 600 publications. Prof. Agarwal holds PhD (Stanford University, 1975), MS (University of Minnesota, 1969), and BS (Indian Institute of Technology, 1968) degrees. He has held the positions of NRC Research Associate at NASA Ames Research Center (1976-78), Program Director and McDonnell Douglas Fellow (1978-1994), Chair of the Aerospace Engineering Department at Wichita State University (1994-96), Executive Director of the National Institute for Aviation Research (1996-2001), and Bloomfield Distinguished Professor at Wichita State University (1994-2001). At Oxford Aerospace Academy, Prof. Agarwal advises the Academy’s CFD division, and leads workshops in Aeronautical Engineering and CFD. – Website