Prior to this appointment at USA, he was a research engineer at Georgia Tech working with Dr. Mark Costello professor of Aerospace Engineering. Carlos received his Bachelor’s (2009), Masters (2010) and PhD (2014) from Georgia Tech under the supervision of Dr. Mark Costello. His PhD research was titled Flight Dynamics and Controls of Meta Aircraft in 2014. Carlos is involved in all types of unmanned aerial vehicle research with a focus on controls of multi-body systems including meta aircraft and coordinated flight. He also has industry experience at Raytheon, Earthly Dynamics and AREAI. AREAI is a small startup company based out of Kennesaw, GA that specializes in autonomy of novel unmanned aerial vehicles. Earthly Dynamics is a small company based out of Atlanta, GA that specializes in controls of parafoil systems.