Center for Advanced Air Mobility

Dr. Ryan Wallace serves as Executive Director and Professor at the Center for Advanced Air Mobility at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. He holds an Ed.D. in Applied Education Studies, an M.S. in Aviation and a B.S. in Aeronautics. His research focuses on aviation regulation, safety, security, human factors and public policy. Dr. Wallace serves as the principal investigator for a portfolio of federal grants valued at more than $10 million. He facilitated professional training seminars for federal agencies in the areas of UAS and AAM safety, operations and counter-UAS topics. He has a strong record of working with government partners on policy development and has served as a subject-matter expert in testimony before state and federal legislative committees. He is a representative on the Federal Aviation Administration’s Drone Safety Team. An Air Force veteran, he was a rated Air Battle Manager on the E-3 AWACS, where he accumulated more than 1,500 flight hours.

Dr. Kranthi Kumar Deveerasetty is a Research Assistant Professor at the Center for Advanced Air Mobility at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. He received a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Andhra University, and M.Tech degree and Ph.D. in Control Systems, both from the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi. He specializes in flight control design for rotorcraft and fixed-wing aircraft, model order reduction, stability analysis of interval systems and sliding mode control. He published 35 academic journal and conference papers. His research received the Best Application Paper Award at the 11th International Conference on Modeling, Identification and Control (ICMIC 2019). Dr. Deveerasetty serves as an Academic Editor for PLOS ONE and previously as an Associate Editor for Measurement and Control (SAGE). He is a Senior Member of both IEEE and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). He serves as the Award Chair and a Technical Committee Member of the AIAA Vertical and Short Take-Off and Landing Aircraft Systems Technical Committee (V/STOL TC). He also served as a F.E. Newbold V/STOL award chair. Dr. Deveerasetty is Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI) on multiple externally-sponsored state and federal research projects. He was previously a Specially Appointed Researcher in the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Infocommunications Engineering at Osaka University, Japan. Prior to that, he was a Research Associate at Kochi University of Technology, Japan and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.

Joe Foreman, Jr. currently serves as the Director of Operations for the Center for Advanced Air Mobility at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. He holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Business Management from Daytona State College, a Master of Arts in Educational Technology from the University of Central Florida and is actively working towards a Doctorate of Education in Higher Education Leadership from Liberty University. In his current role, Mr. Foreman is responsible for oversight of day-to-day facility operations as well as conducting project management support and financial monitoring for the research center’s portfolio of externally-funded research projects. Mr. Foreman previously served as Finance and Operations Manager at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Eagle Flight Research Center and Finance Manager and Bursar for Keiser University.