Dan DeLaurentis, PhD

Executive Vice President for Research
Bruce Reese Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Phone: (765) 494-0694
E-mail: ddelaure@purdue.edu
Executive Assistant: lamuncy@purdue.edu

Dr. Daniel DeLaurentis is Executive Vice President for Research (EVPR) and the Bruce Reese professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Purdue University. As EVPR, he is the Senior Research Officer for the University responsible for increasing the scale and impact of Purdue University’s research enterprise and enabling the success of faculty-driven research by supporting cross-college collaborations. His own research program operates through the Center for Integrated Systems in Aerospace (CISA), working with faculty colleagues and students to research problem formulation, modeling, design and system engineering methods for aerospace systems and systems-of-systems. Research outcomes cover all facets of system of systems (SoS) engineering, including advances in modeling and simulation, dependency analysis methodologies, complexity assessment, optimization, and control with applications ranging from urban and regional Advanced Aerial Mobility, supersonic fleets, and more recently hypersonic vehicles and missions.

DeLaurentis previously served as Chief Scientist of the U.S. DoD’s Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC) UARC, working to understand the systems engineering research needs of the defense community (primarily) and translate that to research programs that are then mapped to the nation’s best researchers and students in the SERC network of 25 universities. He is Senior Research Fellow at the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue. Dr. DeLaurentis has been elected Fellow of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) and Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).