Mike Heiges received the Ph.D. degree from the Georgia Tech School of Aerospace Engineering, in 1989. He is currently a Principal Research Engineer with the Georgia Tech Research Institute, where he works as the Associate Division Chief of the Robotics and Autonomous Systems Division. His background is in aircraft flight dynamics and automatic control and he manages several of GTRI’s swarming UAV programs. He is an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and a member of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI).

Dr. Stephen Balakirsky is the Chief Scientist for the Aerospace, Transportation & Advanced Systems Laboratory at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), and the Director of Technical Initiatives at the Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience at GT.