Dissertation: Large-scale Modeling and Optimization of En Route Air Traffic Flow
Advisor: Alexandre Bayen
PhD Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 2008
MS Industrial and Systems Engineering, The Ohio State University, 2002
BEng Precision Instruments, Tsinghua University, 2000
Purdue University - Present
- Professor
- Associate Head of Gambaro Graduate Program
Dengfeng Sun is a Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. Before joining Purdue, he was an Associate Scientist with University of California Santa Cruz at NASA Ames Research Center. He received a bachelor's degree in precision instruments and mechanology from Tsinghua University in China, a master's degree in industrial and systems engineering from the Ohio State University, and a PhD degree in civil engineering from University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Sun's research interests include distributed control and optimization (esp. resilient network control and optimization): theory, algorithms, computation, and their applications (e.g., optimal resource management in large-scale infrastructure systems; drone technology and smart infrastructure systems, Advanced Air Mobility, air traffic control and management, air transportation and intelligent transportation system).
Dr. Sun is an Associate Fellow of the AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics) and a Senior Member of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers). Currently, he is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems and an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems. Dr. Sun is a Co-Director of NEXTOR III, the FAA Consortium in Aviation Operations Research, and serves the Technical Committee on Guidance, Navigation, and Control in the AIAA. He is the faculty advisor of Sigma Gamma Tau, the national honor society for Aerospace Engineering.
Dr. Sun is a Private Pilot and a Drone Pilot. He has been the faculty advisor of PPI (Purdue Pilots, Inc.) since 2012.
Modeling, simulation, and optimization of large scale networked systems
Control and Optimization
Air traffic control
Intelligent transportation systems
