Siva S. Banda

Banda then served as group leader and program manager before being promoted to branch chief, a position in which he served from 1995 thru 1996. From 1996 thru 2000, he served as technical leader for the Air Vehicles Directorate at the United States Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) at WPAFB. From 2000 thru 2011, he served as the Director of the Control Science Center of Excellence and Senior Scientist for the Air Vehicles Directorate at AFRL at WPAFB. From 2011 thru 2012, he served as the Chief Scientist for Air Vehicles Directorate, AFRL, WPAFB. Currently he is Chief Scientist of the Aerospace Systems Directorate at AFRL/WPAFB.

Banda joined the U.S. Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB) in 1981 as an aerospace research engineer in the Flight Controls Division. He started his career as an in-house researcher.

Siva Banda was born in Andhra Pradesh, India. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the Regional Engineering College, Warangal, India in 1974, followed by a Master of Science degree in aerospace engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India in 1976. He then came to the United States and attended college briefly at the University of Cincinnati before transferring to Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, where he earned another Master of Science in systems engineering in 1978. Banda continued to further his studies and completed his Ph.D. in aerospace engineering at the University of Dayton in 1980. His doctoral dissertation was entitled "Maximum likelihood identification of aircraft lateral parameters with unsteady aerodynamic modeling".