“People, Innovation, Excellence”John's strategic research goal is to ESTABLISH TRUST IN AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS so that they interact with humans and their environment safely, reliably, and predictably to mutually accomplish desired missions and tasks. His approach is human-in-the-loop Reinforcement Learning so that humans can transfer skills to machines, and how learning algorithms can be exploited to leverage the learned behavior. John has been actively conducting flight mechanics and controls research of Manned and Unmanned Air Vehicles in both Industry and Academia for 33 years. John has been with Texas A&M University since 1997, and was previously a Flight Control Engineer for the Northrop Corporation, Aircraft Division where he worked in the Flight Controls Research Group, and on the AGM-137 Tri-Services Standoff Attack Missile (TSSAM) program. John has conducted 350+ UAS flights at Texas A&M University since 1999, for fixed-wing, rotorcraft, and powered parafoil vehicles. He holds a patent for autonomous air refueling of UAS and a patent for the design of a UAS.