Dr. Kyle Ellis is an aerospace research engineer at NASA Langley Research Center and currently manages research supporting NASA’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate as the project manager for the System-Wide Safety Project under the Airspace Operations and Safety Program.
Kyle currently leads a team charged with developing a vision and Concept of Operations for In-Time Aviation Safety Management Systems (IASMS). The concept of an IASMS is designed to safely integrate emerging aviation markets with those already in place and is being developed and demonstrated by leveraging strategic partnerships across industry, academia, and government. His work identifies, matures, and integrates methods and technologies in the areas of increasingly automated and autonomous systems, verification and validation methods for certification, and future-gen aircraft and airspace management concepts to transform the global aviation industry.
Kyle currently serves on multiple committees and working groups related to safety, technology and policy for the aviation industry including the International Forum of Aviation Research (IFAR), the CAST Joint Implementation Measurement Data Analysis Team (JIMDAT), the Complete Air Traffic System (CATS) Global Council, the AIAA Human-Machine Teaming Technical Committee and as a technical advisor to the ICAO Safety Management Panel (SMP) and RPASP/SMP Joint Task Force.