Scholar
Peng Wei
Google Scholar ID: 1cfltHsAAAAJ
George Washington University
Citations & Impact
Citations
2,857
H-index
34
i10-index
62
Publications
20
Co-authors
17
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Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Oct. 2025: Student Shulu won the Best PhD Dissertation Award in the Air Transportation Section at INFORMS
- Sept. 2025: Student Derek won the Best Paper in Session at AIAA/IEEE DASC
- Jun. 2025: Students Amin and Mahyar won the Neil Y. Chen Memorial Best Student Paper Award in the Air Transportation Systems Track at AIAA Aviation
- Apr. 2025: Hosted two NASA ARMD System-Wide Safety (SWS) workshops at GWU: 'In-Time Safety Management for Emerging Aviation Operations' and 'Assurance of Autonomy'
- Invited speaker at multiple international institutions and conferences in 2025 (e.g., Kookmin University, Civil Aviation Flight University of China, SUSTech, SJTU, Tsinghua, University of Maryland, ANU, École Polytechnique, OECD headquarters) on topics including urban air mobility scaling and AI safety in aviation
Background
- Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at George Washington University
- Courtesy appointments in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Department of Computer Science
- Research focuses on AI-powered autonomy and decision support for aviation, avionics, and aerial robotics, including: (1) safety, efficiency, and scalability of aircraft and multi-agent autonomy and human-autonomy teaming; (2) aviation applications such as ATM/C, airline operations, UTM, AAM, and aviation electrification; (3) AI safety, security, and certification for safety-critical systems
- Leads the Intelligent Aerospace Systems Lab (IASL)
- AIAA Associate Fellow
- Serves as Associate Editor for AIAA Journal of Aerospace Information Systems, AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, and Journal of Open Aviation Science
