​​Christina L. Bloebaum is the Dennis and Rebecca Muilenburg Professor of Aerospace Engineering at Iowa State University in Ames, IA. She is also a member of the Virtual Reality Applications Center (VRAC) and the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) program at ISU. She received her B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in aerospace engineering from the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL. She conducts research in design of complex engineered systems, with an emphasis on achieving consistency in physics (through incorporation of multidisciplinary design optimization) as well as preferences (through incorporation of value-based systems engineering and decision analysis). An additional area of research pertains to autonomous systems, with an emphasis of incorporating ethical, legal, societal and environmental implications (ELSEI) in UAS. She is a Fellow of AIAA and member of ASME. Among other awards, she is the recipient of the 2012 AIAA MDO Award, the NSF Presidential Faculty Fellows Award, the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching,  and the SUNY Research Foundation Excellence in Research Award.

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