Alejandra Uranga

Dr Alejandra Uranga is currently an Assistant Professor at the USC Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering (formerly a Research Engineer in the MIT Aeronautics and Astronautics). She holds a MASc from the University of Victoria, BC, Canada, and a PhD degree from MIT. Her research has been in Computational Fluid Dynamics, specifically the modeling and simulation of turbulence and transition. At MIT she was the project technology lead for the design, development, simulation, and wind tunnel testing of an advanced transport aircraft concept under the NASA N+3 program.