• Ph D in Aerospace Engineering, Pennsylvania State University (2019)

• Enabling Inter-Vehicle Coordination Through Observable Control Policies AIAA Scitech 2024 Forum (2024), Andres Enriquez Fernandez, John J. Bird.
• An Autonomous Uncrewed Aircraft System Performing Targeted Atmospheric Observation for Cloud Seeding Operations Field Robotics (2023), C. Alexander Hirst, John J. Bird, Roelof Burger, Henno Havenga, G Botha, Darrel Baumgardner, Tom DeFelice, Duncan Axisa, Eric Frew.
• Estimating System State from the Actions of a Reinforcement Learning Agent AIAA SCITECH 2023 Forum (2023), Andres Enriquez Fernandez, John J. Bird.
• Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for Agile Guidance of Fixed-Wing sUAS (2022), C A. Hirst, John J. Bird, Christopher Reale, Eric Frew.
• Progress toward an architecture for field research with autonomous fixed-wing aircraft AIAA Scitech 2021 Forum (2021), John J. Bird, Eric Frew.
• A dispersed autonomy architecture for information-gathering drone swarms 2020 IEEE Aerospace Conference (2020), Eric W. Frew, Katherine Glasheen, C A. Hirst, John J. Bird, Brian Argrow.
• A gazebo/ros-based communication-realistic simulator for networked suas 2020 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS) (2020), Sangwoo Moon, John J. Bird, Steven Borenstein, Eric W. Frew.
• Integrated Planning, Decision-Making, and Weather Modeling for UAS Navigating Complex Weather Dynamic Data Driven Applications Systems: Third International Conference, DDDAS 2020 (2020), John J. Bird, Katherine Glasheen, Eric W. Frew.
• Optimal Speed Scheduling with Arrival Time Constraint for Solar-Augmented Aircraft Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics (2020), John J. Bird, Jack W. Langelaan.
• Bounded Rationality and Risk Strategy in Thermal Soaring Technical Soaring (2019), John J. Bird, Daniel Sazhin, Jacob W. Langelaan.
• Estimating the vertical structure of weather-induced mission costs for small UAS Sensors (2019), John J. Bird, Scott J. Richardson, Jacob W. Langelaan.
• Optimal Speed Scheduling for Hybrid Solar Aircraft with Arrival Time Condition AIAA Scitech 2019 Forum (2019), John J. Bird, Jacob W. Langelaan.

• Bounded Rationality and Risk Strategy in Thermal Soaring (2023), Volume Reno, NV, John J. Bird.
• “Controlling Observability: Gathering Informative Data Through Design and Operation of Intelligent Systems (2023), Volume New Mexico State University, John J. Bird.

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