Dr. Daniel DeLaurentis is Vice President for Discovery Park District (DPD) Institutes at Purdue University. He researches problem formulation, modeling, design and system engineering methods for aerospace systems and especially 'systems-of-systems'. Applications have included civil and military transportation (e.g., urban air mobility, supersonic fleets), command and control for air / missile defense (e.g., hypersonic vehicles and missions), space exploration architectures, and even corn production systems. From 2018-2024, DeLaurentis served as Chief Scientist of the DoD’s Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC) UARC, addressing the systems engineering research needs of the defense community He is Senior Research Fellow at the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue and a Fellow of both the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).