Tansel Yucelen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of South Florida. He received the Doctor of Philosophy degree in Aerospace Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology (2012). Prior to joining the University of South Florida, he held an Assistant Professor position in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the Missouri University of Science and Technology (2013-2016) and a Research Engineer position in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the School of Aerospace Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology (2011-2013). He was also a Summer Faculty Fellow at the Air Force Research Laboratory Wright-Patterson (2014) and Eglin (2015), and a consultant to NASA (2014-2016), Wichita State University (2017-2018), and the Missouri University of Science and Technology (2017-2018). He has co-authored more than 300 peer-reviewed papers in top internationally-recognized journals and conferences, and secured external grants and contracts through NSF, AFRL, AFOSR, ARO, DARPA, MDA, NASA, and ORAU. He was the recipient of the University of South Florida Research and Innovation Faculty Outstanding Research Achievement Award (2018), the University of South Florida College of Engineering Junior Outstanding Research Achievement Award (2017), the Aerospace Control and guidance Systems Committee Dave Ward Memorial Lecture Award (2016), the AIAA Technical Contribution Award (2016), the Oak Ridge Associated Universities Junior Faculty Award (2015), and the Class of 1942 Excellence in Teaching Award (2014). He is a member of the National Academy of Inventors, an associate fellow of the AIAA, and a senior member of the IEEE. In 2024, he was recognized as: Highly Ranked Scholar in Adaptive Control and Control Theory by ScholarGPS (in recognition of exceptional productivity, noteworthy impact, and quality of scholarly work in the top 0.05% scholars in the specialty worldwide); and also among the Top 2% of the most cited scientists worldwide by Stanford/Elseviers annual citation ranking.