Dr. Tansel Yucelen (citizen of Turkey and USA) is an Associate Professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, the Director of the Laboratory for Autonomy, Control, Information, and Systems (LACIS), and the Director of the Forum on Robotics and Control Engineering (FoRCE) at the University of South Florida (USF). He is also the Co-Founder and Principal Engineer of ControlX, a startup company focusing on sensing and control for next-generation aerospace and space systems. Dr. Yucelen received a Doctor of Philosophy in Aerospace Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2012. Before joining the University of South Florida, he held Research Engineer positions in the School of Aerospace Engineering and the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology from 2011 to 2013. He also held an Assistant Professor position in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the Missouri University of Science and Technology from 2013 to 2016, where he created and directed the Advanced Systems Research Laboratory and the Control Systems Forum. He participated in summer programs at the Air Force Research Laboratory Aerospace System Directorate in Dayton, Ohio (2014) and at the Munitions Directorate in Eglin, Florida (2015).