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Professor Gokhan Inalhan holds the BAE Systems Chair as Professor of Autonomous Systems and Artificial Intelligence at Cranfield University. He serves as Deputy Head of the Centre for Autonomous and Cyber-Physical Systems within the School of Aerospace, Transport and Manufacturing. Inalhan obtained his B.Sc. in Aeronautical Engineering from Istanbul Technical University in 1997, and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford University in 1998 and 2004, respectively. Following a Postdoctoral Associate position at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2004 to 2006, he joined the faculty at Istanbul Technical University in 2006. There, he directed the Controls and Avionics Laboratory from 2006 to 2016 and the Aerospace Research Centre as Director-General from 2016 to 2019 before moving to Cranfield University in 2019.

His research specializes in design, modeling, guidance, navigation, control, resilience, and security aspects of autonomy and artificial intelligence applied to air, defense, transportation, and space systems. Current focuses encompass advanced flight controls and reinforcement learning for autonomous systems, human-autonomy interaction, urban air and cargo mobility, air traffic management and unmanned traffic management, data analytics-driven digital twins and surrogate modeling, and explainable AI for trustworthy autonomous systems. Inalhan leads grants and projects funded by FP7, H2020, SESAR, EPSRC, Boeing, BAE Systems, and other aerospace entities. He has published over 200 papers, with highly cited works including 'Decentralized overlapping control of a formation of unmanned aerial vehicles' (2004), 'Relative dynamics and control of spacecraft formations in eccentric orbits' (2002), and 'Decentralized optimization, with application to multiple aircraft coordination' (2002). Awards include the IEEE AESS Exceptional Service Award, Boeing Faculty Fellowship, Council of Higher Education Outstanding Achievement Award, TUBITAK Innovation Success Stories, and AIAA Associate Fellowship. He serves as Technical Editor for IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems: Autonomous Systems, Distinguished Lecturer for IEEE AESS, and contributes to technical committees such as IEEE TCAC and AIAA GNC TC.