Faizan is an aerospace scientist and inventor of the Ground Reality Information Processing System (GRIPS), an innovative system to prevent runway incursion and runway excursion, and detects foreign objects and debris on runways in real time. Faizan is also the founder of DiscoverSTEM research and innovation lab, where he mentors young kids to identify real-world problems and innovate novel and patentable solutions to these problems. He has vast experience working on the design and development of aerospace, defense, and mission-critical systems. His research and algorithm for predicting collision between random particles in a semi-controlled environment are highly admired by scientists from NASA, Pentagon-AMRDEC (Army Missile Research, Development & Engineering Center), and the US Air Force. Global R&D communities often seek his expertise in research, innovation, aerospace systems design & and development, and aviation safety.As a nominated judge of the R&D100 Awards, Faizan has evaluated research and technologies that are exclusively funded/owned by NASA, the United States Department of Homeland Security, Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Department, United States Department of Energy, United States Department of Defense – Joint Cyber Center, United States Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).Nominated/finalist/recipient of: 1. The George Washington Honor Medal- 2021 (US National Award given by Freedoms Foundation)2. Economic Times-Ernst & Young “Business Leader of Tomorrow Award-2011”, 3. IHS Janes ATC Award 2014 at World Air Traffic Management Congress in Madrid, Spain, 4. Aviation Industry Innovation Award - 20135. Apollo Science Teaching Award - 20176. 'Teacher's Certificate of Recognition by the National Space SocietyFaizan is a serial innovator with 38 patents granted in 18 domains in the US and other countries and 22 pending patents.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirza_Faizan