Aviation Systems Division Publications
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
2026
Towards Naturalistic Human-Machine Teaming With LLM Agents: A Case Study in Air Traffic Management
Nathan Xue, Dhriti Verma, Vriksha Srihari, Wiktor Piotrowski, Kenny Chour, Krishna Kalyanam
AIAA SciTech Forum, January 2026
DeBERTa-AT: a DeBERTaV3 variant Fine-tuned on Air Traffic Data
Richard S. Yue, David Nielsen, Krishna Kalyanam
AIAA SciTech Forum, January 2026
2025
Enhancing Air Traffic Management: A Latent Representation Learning Approach
Saman Mostafavi, Charles Ison, Farzan Masrour Shalmani, Krishna Kalyanam
Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC), September 2025
Aviation-Specific Large Language Model Fine-Tuning and LLM-as-a-Judge Evaluation
Kathleen Ge, William J. Coupe
AIAA Aviation Forum, July 2025
Shadow Evaluation of Real-Time Machine Learning Services in the Houston Airspace
William J. Coupe, Alexandre Amblard, Sarah Youlton, Matthew Kistler
US-Europe Air Transportation Research and Development Symposium (ATRDS), June 2025
Simulation Framework for Tactical Separation Assurance Service using Deep Reinforcement Learning
Gautam Sai Yarramreddy, José Ignacio de Alvear Cárdenas, Priyank Pradeep, Min Xue, Seungman Lee, Vincent Kuo
NASA Technical Memorandum, March 2025
Ground Stop Adjuster: A Machine Learning Approach to Improve Air Traffic Management Initiatives
Farzan Masrour Shalmani, Milad Memarzadeh, Aida Sharif Rohani, Krishna Kalyanam
AIAA SciTech Forum, January 2025
Contextualizing Air Traffic Management Conversations using Natural Language Understanding
Aida Sharif Rohani, David Nielsen, James Della-Giustina, Krishna Kalyanam
AIAA SciTech Forum, January 2025
2024
Runway Configuration Assistance: An Offline Reinforcement Learning Method for Air Traffic Management
Milad Memarzadeh, Krishna Kalyanam
AIAA Journal of Aerospace Information Systems, December 2024
Towards an Aviation Large Language Model by Fine-tuning and Evaluating Transformers
David Nielsen, Stephen Clarke, Krishna Kalyanam
Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC), September 2024
A Natural Language Understanding Approach for Digitizing Aircraft Ground Taxi Instructions
Hillel Steinmetz, Jacob Tao, Stephen Clarke, Krishna Kalyanam
AIAA Aviation Forum, July 2024
Inverse Text Normalization of Air Traffic Control System Command Center Planning Telecon Transcriptions
Kevin Guo, Stephen Clarke, Krishna Kalyanam
AIAA Aviation Forum, July 2024
Document Classification Techniques for Aviation Letters of Agreement
Anna Batra, Swetha Rajkumar, David Nielsen, Stephen Clarke, Krishna Kalyanam, Kanvasi Tejasen, Melissa Ohsfeldt, Mike Copp
AIAA Aviation Forum, July 2024
Applying Machine Learning Tools for Runway Configuration Decision Support
Krishna Kalyanam, Milad Memarzadeh, John Crissman, Rebekah Yang, Kanvasi Tejasen
International Conference on Research in Air Transportation (ICRAT), July 2024
Classification of Notices to Airmen using Natural Language Processing
Aiden Szeto, Aditya Das
AIAA SciTech Forum, January 2024
Optimization of Airport Runway Configuration with Forecast-Augmented Offline Reinforcement Learning
Sumanth Nethi, Milad Memarzadeh, Krishna Kalyanam
AIAA SciTech Forum, January 2024
Predicting Air Traffic Management Initiatives Using Supervised Learning
Manoj Agrawal, Milad Memarzadeh, Krishna Kalyanam, Kelly Mulholland, Richard Tan
AIAA SciTech Forum, January 2024
2023
Prediction of Aircraft Estimated Time of Arrival Using A Supervised Learning Approach
James Wells, Tejas Puranik, Krishna Kalyanam, Manish Kumar
Modeling, Estimation, and Control Conference, October 2023
Machine Learning Approach for Aircraft Performance Model Parameter Estimation for Trajectory Prediction Applications
Aida Sharif Rohani, Tejas Puranik, Krishna Kalyanam
Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC), October 2023
Predicting Airport Runway Configurations for Decision-Support Using Supervised Learning
Tejas Puranik, Milad Memarzadeh, Krishna Kalyanam
Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC), October 2023
Machine Learning Airport Surface Model
William J. Coupe, Alexandre Amblard, Sarah Youlton, Matthew Kistler
Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC), October 2023
Distributed Decision Contextualization via Machine Learning-based Reverse Parametrization
Stanley Hicks, Aditya Das, Husni Idris
AIAA Aviation Forum, June 2023
Airport Runway Configuration Management with Offline Model-free Reinforcement Learning
Milad Memarzadeh, Tejas Puranik, Krishna Kalyanam, Wes Ryan
AIAA SciTech Forum, January 2023
2022
Sustainable Aviation Operations and the Role of Information Technology and Data Science: Background, Current Status and Future Directions
Banavar Sridhar, David Bell
AIAA Aviation Forum, June 2022
Natural Language Understanding and Extraction of Flight Constraints Recorded in Letters of Agreement
Stephen Clarke, Zhifan Zhu, Olivia He, Jacqueline Almache Almeida, Krishna Kalyanam, Raj Pai
AIAA Aviation Forum, June 2022
2021
Natural Language Processing Analysis of Notices to Airmen for Air Traffic Management Optimization
Stephen Clarke, Patrick Maynard, Jacqueline Almeida, Satvik Kumar, Swetha Rajkumar, Alexandra Kemp, Raj Pai
AIAA Aviation Forum, August 2021
Real-time Unimpeded Taxi Out Machine Learning Service
Alexandre Amblard, Sarah Youlton, William J. Coupe
AIAA Aviation Forum, August 2021
A Machine Learning Approach to Predict Aircraft Landing Times using Mediated Predictions from Existing Systems
Dan Wesely, Andrew Churchill, John Slough, William J. Coupe
AIAA Aviation Forum, August 2021
Predicting Arrival and Departure Runway Assignments with Machine Learning
Andrew Churchill, William J. Coupe, Yoon Jung
AIAA Aviation Forum, August 2021
A Recursive Multi-step Machine Learning Approach for Airport Configuration Prediction
Shaymaa Khater, Juan Rebollo, William J. Coupe
AIAA Aviation Forum, August 2021
2020
AEGIS: Autonomous Entity Global Intelligence System for Urban Air Mobility
Aditya Das, Kristina Marotta, Husni Idris
AIAA Aviation Forum, June 2020
Lessons Learned in the Application of Machine Learning Techniques to Air Traffic Management
Banavar Sridhar, Gano Chatterji, Antony Evans
AIAA Aviation Forum, June 2020
2019
Using Machine-Learning to Dynamically Generate Operationally Acceptable Strategic Reroute Options
Antony Evans, Paul Lee
Air Traffic Management Research and Development (ATM R&D) Seminar, June 2019
2018
Supervised Learning Applied to Air Traffic Trajectory Classification
Christabelle Bosson, Tasos Nikoleros
AIAA SciTech Forum, January 2018