Yasmin Arbab

Affiliation– NASA Ames Research Center

Division– Human Systems Integration Division (TH)

Email– yasmin.arbab@nasa.gov

Awards

(2023)  Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD) Associate Administrator (AA) Award, UASP-Kit Development Team (Honorable Mention)

(2021)  NASA Group Achievement Award, STEReO Field Demonstration Team

(2020)  NASA Group Achievement Award, UTM – Technical Capability Level-4 Demonstration

(2019)  NASA Group Achievement Award, ATD-2 IADS Field Demonstration Team

(2018)  Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD) Associate Administrator (AA) Award, Technology and Innovation Group Award- ATD-2/IADS Field Demonstration Team

Publications

Bakowski, D. L., Martin, L., Brasil, C. L., Arbab, Y., Costedoat, G., Blandin, S. A., Walter, C. M., & Ghatas, R. (2025). Integration and Testing of a UAS Airspace Management System in the Wildland Firefighting Environment. Proceedings of the Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE2025) Hawaii International Conference, Vol. 199, 1298–1309, Honolulu, Hawaii, December 8–10, 2025. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20250010047

Arbab, Y., Brasil, C. L., Martin, L., Costedoat, G., Blandin, S. A., Walter, C. M., & Bakowski, D. L. (2025). Development of a Graphical User Interface for the Advanced Capabilities for Emergency Response Operation’s Portable Airspace Management Concept. Proceedings of the Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE2025) Hawaii International Conference, Vol. 199, 481–492, Honolulu, Hawaii, December 8–10, 2025.

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20250010048

L. H. Martin, L. Roberts, J. Mercer, Y. Arbab, C. M. Walter, W. M. McCarty, C. Sheehe III, & D. Fuller (2023) Initial testing of the Uncrewed Aerial System Pilot Kit (UASP-kit) in Operational Settings, In proceedings of the 2023 International Symposium on Aviation Psychology (ISAP)

L. H. Martin, Y. Arbab, L. Roberts, J. Mercer, C. M. Walter, W. M. McCarty, & C. Sheehe III (2022) Developing an Unmanned Aircraft System Pilot Kit (UASP-kit) for Wildland Fire UAS Operators, AIAA Aviation 2022, Chicago, IL, June 

L. H. Martin, Y. Arbab, & J. Mercer (2021) Initial exploration of STEReO (Scalable Traffic Management for Emergency Response Operations) System User Requirements for Safe Integration of Small UAS, In Proceedings of the 40th Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC), October 3-7, 2021, San Antonio, TX. eCF Paper Id: DASC2021.3055 

J. Mercer, L. Roberts, Y. Arbab, G. Harbert, M. Huynh, & M. Leitzel (2021) Scalable traffic management for emergency response operations, Presented at the Transformative Aeronautics Concepts Program (TACP) Showcase (Virtual), February 4, 2021