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Air Traffic Management and Optimization

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Milan Klöwer
University of Oxford
2
Mihir Rimjha
Miller Group (Canada)
3
Xing Cai
Nanjing University of Science and Technology
4
Augustin Degas
National Higher French Institute of Aeronautics and Space
5
Stanislav Karpuk
Technische Universität Braunschweig
6
Qihang Xu
Hubei University Of Economics
7
Mozhou Gao
Kuraray (United States)
8
Nicolò Avogadro
University of Bergamo
9
Nader Samir Labib
University of Luxembourg
10
Xinhong Dai
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

Rising Stars Papers

1
PIGAT: Physics-Informed Graph Attention Transformer for Air Traffic State Prediction
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems|2024
47 cit.
2
Demystifying electric aircraft’s role in aviation decarbonization: Are first-generation electric aircraft cost-effective?
Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment|2024
28 cit.
3
Potential of Hydrogen Fuel Cell Aircraft for Commercial Applications with Advanced Airframe and Propulsion Technologies
Aerospace|2025
21 cit.
4
Pathways toward sustainable aviation: Analyzing emissions from air operations in Europe to support policy initiatives
Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice|2024
19 cit.
5
Dynamic airspace sectorization with machine learning enhanced workload prediction and clustering
Journal of Air Transport Management|2024
17 cit.
6
Assessing airport ground access interventions: An integrated approach combining mode choice modeling and microscopic traffic simulation
Transport Policy|2024
14 cit.
7
Energy-Efficient UAV Communications With Directional Antennas: Tilting Effect Modeling and Trajectory Optimization
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology|2025
7 cit.
8
SpeedyWeather.jl: Reinventing atmospheric generalcirculation models towards interactivity and extensibility
The Journal of Open Source Software|2024
4 cit.
9
Constraint analysis methodology for ground-effect vehicle conceptual design
Ocean Engineering|2024
3 cit.
10
Data-driven governing equation identification of near terminal air traffic flow dynamics
Journal of Air Transport Management|2025
3 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Marc Stettler
Imperial College London
2
Emily Farrar
University of Toronto
3
Yajie Dou
National University of Defense Technology
4
Tianjun Liao
Unknown
5
Kam K.H. Ng
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
6
Kevin Antcliff
Langley Research Center
7
Alloysius Joko Purwanto
Association of Southeast Asian Nations
8
Andrea C. Hupman
University of Missouri–St. Louis
9
Wuquan Deng
Chongqing Emergency Medical Center
10
Mihaela Mitici
Utrecht University

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Deep reinforcement learning for predictive aircraft maintenance using probabilistic Remaining-Useful-Life prognostics
Reliability Engineering & System Safety|2022
199 cit.
2
Alarm-based predictive maintenance scheduling for aircraft engines with imperfect Remaining Useful Life prognostics
Reliability Engineering & System Safety|2022
143 cit.
3
Targeted Use of Sustainable Aviation Fuel to Maximize Climate Benefits
Environmental Science & Technology|2022
140 cit.
4
Dynamic predictive maintenance for multiple components using data-driven probabilistic RUL prognostics: The case of turbofan engines
Reliability Engineering & System Safety|2023
128 cit.
5
Aviation contrail climate effects in the North Atlantic from 2016 to 2021
Atmospheric chemistry and physics|2022
121 cit.
6
Vibration signal-based early fault prognosis: Status quo and applications
Advanced Engineering Informatics|2022
118 cit.
7
Developing health indicators and RUL prognostics for systems with few failure instances and varying operating conditions using a LSTM autoencoder
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence|2022
104 cit.
8
Global aviation contrail climate effects from 2019 to 2021
Atmospheric chemistry and physics|2024
72 cit.
9
The high-resolution Global Aviation emissions Inventory based on ADS-B (GAIA) for 2019–2021
Atmospheric chemistry and physics|2024
70 cit.
10
Exosomal miRNA-26b-5p from PRP suppresses NETs by targeting MMP-8 to promote diabetic wound healing
Journal of Controlled Release|2024
68 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Amedeo R. Odoni
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
2
Anming Zhang
University of British Columbia
3
Hamsa Balakrishnan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
4
Claire J. Tomlin
Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology
5
Mark Hansen
University of California, Berkeley
6
Roberto Sabatini
Khalifa University of Science and Technology
7
R. John Hansman
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
8
Dimitri N. Mavris
Georgia Institute of Technology
9
Éric Féron
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
10
S. Shankar Sastry
University of California, Berkeley

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Kalman Filtering With Intermittent Observations
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control|2004
2.5k cit.
2
A time-dependent Hamilton-Jacobi formulation of reachable sets for continuous dynamic games
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control|2005
1.1k cit.
3
Quadrotor Helicopter Flight Dynamics and Control: Theory and Experiment
AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference and Exhibit|2007
1.1k cit.
4
Generalized principal component analysis (GPCA)
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence|2005
1.1k cit.
5
Conflict resolution for air traffic management: a study in multiagent hybrid systems
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control|1998
1k cit.
6
Real-Time Motion Planning for Agile Autonomous Vehicles
Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics|2002
826 cit.
7
Feedback linearization vs. adaptive sliding mode control for a quadrotor helicopter
International Journal of Control Automation and Systems|2009
668 cit.
8
Provably safe and robust learning-based model predictive control
Automatica|2013
538 cit.
9
Probabilistic pursuit-evasion games: theory, implementation, and experimental evaluation
IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation|2002
529 cit.
10
Unsupervised segmentation of natural images via lossy data compression
Computer Vision and Image Understanding|2007
514 cit.

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