Asia Pacific
Dr. Chen-Chung Hsin
 Dr.
Chen-Chung Hsin is regional director for Asia-Pacific at the MITRE
Corporation's Center for Advanced Aviation Systems Development (CAASD)
and director of the MITRE Aviation Institute. He is responsible
for the planning and execution of CAASD's aviation training initiative,
which serves the global aviation community. He also directs the
business planning, development and management of MITRE's aviation
programs in the Asia-Pacific region.
Hsin's previous experience includes work on CAASD's Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA) and international communication, navigation,
surveillance and air traffic management (CNS/ATM) systems. Hsin
also has held senior positions at ARINC, Inc., in support of their
international CNS/ATM programs.
Hsin earned a doctorate degree in aeronautics and astronautics
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He serves on the
Embry-Riddle University Aviation Research Advisory Council and is
an adjunct Professor at Kwangju Institute of Science and Technology
in the Republic of Korea. Hsin was the 1977 recipient of RTCA's
William Jackson Memorial Award.
Canada/ Middle East and Africa
Gregg Leone
In addition to his duties as CAASD’s Director of System Transformation
and Security, Gregg A. Leone is International Director for Canada,
the Middle East, and Africa. He leads CAASD's efforts there in:
air traffic control modernization; corporate restructuring of civil
aviation authorities; airport privatization; local and regional
communications, navigation and surveillance/air traffic management
planning; and the development of civil aviation safety and regulatory
policy, procedures, and programs.
Since joining MITRE in 1983, he has held several positions. From
1996 to 2001, he was Site Leader of CAASD's Atlantic City office,
which supported activities at the Federal Aviation Administration
Technical Center. From 1989 to 1992, he helped the German Bureau
of Flight Safety develop and implement a major system upgrade.
Leone has a M.S. in Aeronautical Science from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical
University, and a B.S., in Computer Science and Applied Systems
Software from Rochester Institute of Technology.
Europe and Latin America
Bernard Lisker, PhD
 Dr.
Bernard Lisker is International Director for Europe and Latin America
at the MITRE Center for Advanced Aviation System Development. His
responsibilities include transfer of technology to nations working
with MITRE in technical fields such as airport capacity and delay/saturation,
airspace design, noise modeling, and terminal area navigation (RNAV).
Since joining MITRE in 1986, Dr. Lisker has worked on many FAA
research and development projects, one of which led to acceptance
of dependent instrument approaches to converging runways. He also
worked with the FAA on the development of simultaneous instrument
approaches to converging runways, using O’Hare airport as
a case study. Internationally, he has been involved with projects
in Belgium, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Argentina, Ecuador,
Mexico, Singapore, Taiwan, and many other nations throughout the
world.
Dr. Lisker is an Electrical Engineer. He also holds Master of
Science and doctorate (Ph.D.) degrees in Flight Transportation from
the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology. |
