Justin Kizer, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Huntsville, Alabama, United States

Huntsville, Alabama, United States

Huntsville, Alabama, United States

Austin, Texas Area

-Taught over 150 undergraduates in an upper-division flight dynamics course covering rigid-body 6 Degree-Of-Freedom equations of motion, aircraft performance, and stability and control.

Austin, Texas Area

- Helped grow a small, family-owned baking business by designing and constructing displays and equipment.- Maintained inventory database and procured packaging and materials from a variety of local vendors.- Interfaced and built relationships with end customers while assisting with sales at local farmer's markets.

El Segundo, California

Modeling and Simulation Department:- Proposed, secured funding and served as Principal Investigator (PI) for an Internal Research And Development (IRAD) project to evaluate the use of machine learning to inform large-scale tactical decision making.- Developed and implemented an ontology-based relational data model using a Python interface layer as part of a multidisciplinary team to connect various legacy software tools and databases. - Developed software and scenarios to perform analyses and trade studies for large-scale Space System of Systems (SoS) problems and Military Utility Analyses (MUA).- Coordinated an internal robotics competition with the ultimate goal to develop software for close proximity operations for a swarm of small autonomous vehicles.- Performed web-scraping activities to augment an existing database of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS).- Constructed a parametric, agent-based simulation sandbox within the Advanced Framework for Simulation, Integration and Modeling (AFSIM) for the evaluation of counter-UAS strategies and technologies.

Atlanta, Ga

Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory (ASDL):- Developed interface and data visualization software for the Environmental Design Space (EDS), a suite of integrated NASA and industry conceptual aircraft design tools, in order to design advanced vehicle concepts and investigate feasibility and efficacy of emerging N+2 aircraft technologies.- Generated Artificial Neural-Network (ANN) surrogate models for key performance metrics of technology-infused advanced vehicle concepts to enable decision making through real-time trade-off analysis.- Worked within a multidisciplinary student team to develop a traceable methodology for Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) and propagation during development and testing of advanced aircraft technologies.- Utilized flight test data obtained on the GIII Subsonic Research Aircraft Testbed (SCRAT) while embedded within a NASA team to train computational models for aero-structural design and optimization of a wing with an integrated shape morphing technology.

Austin, Tx

- Assisted in the development and FORTRAN programming of a 3-D Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) free-molecular far-field model for the vapor plumes of Enceladus. - Analyzed summarized fly-by data provided by the Ion and Neutral Mas Spectrometer (INMS) of the Cassini spacecraft to train and validate computational models.

La Porte, Tx

- Designed fixtures and performed post-repair flow testing of various industrial gas turbine flow path components (blades, stator vanes, combustion liners).- Prepared drawings and repair specifications for industrial gas turbine fuel nozzles.- Performed Non-Destructive Examination (NDE) to inspect gas turbine components.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical Engineering, 3.83

Ph.D. Dissertation: - Developed and demonstrated a methodology which leveraged machine learning, adaptive sampling and advanced.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical Engineering, 4.0

M.S. Special Problem: - Used a fuel-balance approach to develop a physics based, parametric sizing and synthesis Excel/VBA tool.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical Engineering, 3.89

Activities and Societies: Design Build Fly (2 years), AUVSI (1 year), University of Texas Kendo AssociationDesign Build Fly Experience.