Editor Name: Hassanalian Mostafa

Designation: Assistant Professor

University: New Mexico Tech

Country: USA

Biography: Dr. Mostafa Hassanalian is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the lab head of the Autonomous Flight and Aquatic Systems Laboratory (AFASL) at New Mexico Tech. He earned his PhD and second Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from New Mexico State University in July 2018 and December 2016, respectively, and his first Master of Science from Isfahan University of Technology (Iran) in June 2013. He is doing research on different types of drones (UAV/MAV/NAV/PAV) for 10 years. His main research interests are in the fields of fixed and flapping wing micro and nano air vehicles, tilt-rotor and tilt-wing drones, morphing drones, space and marine drones, separation and swarming flight of micro drones, flight dynamics, biomimetics, fluid-structure interaction, and optimization