Dr. M. Ilhan Akbas is an associate professor at the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department of the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU). He is the director of the Flexible & Intelligent Complex Systems (FICS) research group, co-director of WIDE Lab, and a member of the leadership at the Center for Aerospace Resilient Systems (CARS). Dr. Akbas has over 20 years of experience in complex systems, modeling and simulation, validation and verification, and machine learning. Dr. Akbas has more than eight years of defense industry and enterprise level software development experience. His research group has been supported through grants from agencies such as National Science of Foundation, Federal Aviation Administration, US Air Force, Office of Naval Research, as well as industry. He is a senior member of IEEE and a member of ACM, AIAA, SAE, International Alliance for Mobility Testing and Standardization, Complex Systems Society, and Cyber Safety Commercial Aviation Team.
