BIOGRAPHY

John L. Crassidis
Professor
University at Buffalo
Dept of Mech & Aero Eng
Amherst, NY 14260
Phone: (716) 645-1426
Fax: (716) 645-3668


EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE HONORS AND AWARDS ACTIVITIES

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EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
Education
Ph.D., 1993, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, S.U.N.Y. at Buffalo
M.S., 1991, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, S.U.N.Y. at Buffalo
B.S., 1989, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, S.U.N.Y. at Buffalo
Experience
8/07-present: Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University at Buffalo
8/02-7/07: Associate Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University at Buffalo
1/01-7/02: Assistant Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University at Buffalo
9/98-1/01: Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering, Texas A&M University
5/98-9/98: NASA/ASEE Research Fellow, NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center
1/96-9/98: Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Catholic University of America
5/97-9/97: NASA/ASEE Research Fellow, NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center
5/94-9/96: NRC Postdoctoral Fellow, NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center
10/93-5/94: Consultant, Ford Motor Company
1/93-6/93: Part-Time Faculty Member, S.U.N.Y. at Buffalo
1/92-1/93: NRC Research Fellow, National Transportation Research Board
3/92-10/92: Research Assistant, Calspan-U.B. Research Center (CUBRC)
9/89-12/91: Research Assistant, Bell Aerospace Textron
1/90-6/93: Teaching Assistant, S.U.N.Y. at Buffalo
1/89-5/89: Internship, Taylor Devices

HONORS AND AWARDS
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics-Sustained Service Award, '06
Society of Automotive Engineers-Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award, '06
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics-Best Paper Award, Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference (out of 350 papers), '03: Crassidis, J.L., and Markley, F.L., “Unscented Filtering for Spacecraft Attitude Estimation,” AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Austin, TX, Aug. 2003, AIAA Paper #2003-5484.
University at Buffalo-Young Investigator Award, '02
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics-Best Paper Award, Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference (out of 225 papers), '01: Kim, J.-W., Crassidis, J.L., Vadali, S.R., and Dershowitz, A.L., “ISS Leak Localization Using Attitude Response,” AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Montreal, CA, Aug. 2001, AIAA Paper #01-4272.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration-Summer Faculty Fellowship Award, administered by the American Society for Engineering Education, '97-'98
American Men & Women of Science (AMWS)-Entrant, '97
National Aeronautics and Space Administration-Postdoctoral Fellowship Award, administered by the National Research Council, '94-'96
United States Achievement Academy-National Collegiate Engineering Award, '93
National Transportation Research Board-Graduate Research Fellowship Award, administered by the National Research Council, '92-'93
Greek Orthodox Scholarship Award, '88-'89
S.U.N.Y at Buffalo-Engineering Dean's List, '87-'89 (undergraduate)

ACTIVITIES
Societies
MEMBER, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), '87-present
SECRETARY, ASME-Washington DC Section, '97-'98
FACULTY ADVISOR, ASME-CUA Section, '96-'98
DIRECTOR, ASME-Washington DC Section, '96-'97
ASSOCIATE FELLOW, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), '02-present
ASSOCIATE EDITOR, AIAA-Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, '05-present
CHAIR, National Technical Committee of the AIAA-Guidance, Navigation and Control Committee, '06-present
VICE CHAIR and SECRETARY, National Technical Committee of the AIAA-Guidance, Navigation and Control Committee, '04-'06
AREA CHAIR, AIAA-Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference, '04
GENERAL CHAIR, AIAA-Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference, '03
TECHNICAL CO-CHAIR, AIAA-Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference, '01
FACULTY ADVISOR, AIAA-Texas A&M Section, '99-'01
MEMBER, National Technical Committee of the AIAA-Guidance, Navigation and Control Committee, '97-present
SENIOR MEMBER, AIAA, '97-'02
MEMBER, AIAA, '88-'97
COUNCIL MEMBER, AIAA-Niagara Frontier Section, '93-'94
MEMBER, American Astronautical Society, '98-present
MEMBER, Society of Automotive Engineers, '89-present
MEMBER, American Society of Engineering Education, '98-present
Reviewer
AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics
AIAA Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets
AIAA Journal
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
IEEE Transactions on Education
ASME Journal of Vibration and Acoustics
ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control
AAS Journal of the Astronautical Sciences
Journal of Sound and Vibration
Journal of Systems and Control Engineering
Journal of Applied Mathematics
Journal of the Franklin Institute
Aerospace Science and Technology
International Journal of Modelling and Simulation
National Science Foundation
Canadian Foundation for Innovation
Israel Science Foundation