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John-Paul Clarke

Adjunct Professor and Ernest Cockrell, Jr. Memorial Chair in Engineering and Professor
The University of Texas at Austin

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404.385.7206
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Education

Sc.D. Aeronautics and Astronautics (1997), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
S.M. Aeronautics and Astronautics (1992), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
S.B. Aeronautics and Astronautics (1991), Massachusetts Institute of Technology

John-Paul Clarke

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John-Paul Clarke is an Adjunct Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering and professor of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at The University of Texas at Austin, where he holds the Ernest Cockrell Jr. Memorial Chair in Engineering. Prior to joining the faculty at UT Austin, he was a faculty member at Georgia Tech, the Vice President of Strategic Technologies at United Technologies Corporation (now Raytheon), a faculty member at MIT, and a researcher at Boeing and NASA JPL. He has also co-founded multiple companies, most recently Universal Hydrogen – a company dedicated to the development of a comprehensive carbon-free solution for aviation.

Clarke is a leading expert in aircraft trajectory prediction and optimization, especially as it pertains to the development of flight procedures that reduce the environmental impact of aviation, and in the development and use of stochastic models and optimization algorithms to improve the efficiency and robustness of aircraft, airline, airport, and air traffic operations. As indicated in his 2018 testimony to the Science Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, he is particularly interested in leveraging his expertise to enable increasingly autonomous aircraft-enabled mobility, especially in urban and regional settings.

His contributions to aerospace extend well beyond his research. Clarke is the founding chair of the AIAA Human-Machine Teaming Technical Committee, was co-chair of the National Academies Committee that developed the US National Agenda for Autonomy Research related to Civil Aviation, and has chaired or served on advisory and technical committees chartered by the AIAA, EU, FAA, ICAO, NASA, the National Academies, the US Army, and the US DOT.

Expertise:
  • Airline Operations
  • Systems Design & Optimization
  • Flight Mechanics & Controls
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