Dr. Raman Mehra
Executive Chairman
Dr. Raman Mehra is Executive Chairman of Scientific Systems. With over 50 years of corporate leadership experience developing solutions for national security customers, Dr. Mehra has been instrumental in shaping the company’s strategic vision and long-term growth initiatives. He has participated in the development of innovative applications of autonomy and intelligent guidance, navigation and control (GNC) for aerospace and defense systems; image and signal processing for target detection and recognition; multisensory multitarget tracking; Kalman Filtering and Nonlinear Filtering; Battle Management, Wargaming and Mission Planning.
He is responsible for getting the company into new fields such as Robotics, Unmanned Systems, Networking, Formation Flying, Fault-Tolerant Control, Multi-Spacecraft Autonomy & Control, Information Assurance, Network Centric Warfare, nonlinear optimization of flight vehicles, missile guidance and control, process control and electric power systems. He has published over 300 papers and edited a book on System Identification.
Dr. Mehra was an Associate Professor of Engineering and Applied Mathematics at Harvard University from 1972-1976. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1965 and 1968, respectively. His professional awards include: Fellow IEEE (1986), Eckman Award (1971), IEEE T-AC Best Paper (1971) and Automatica Best Paper (1982) Awards. Dr. Mehra has authored more than 300 publications, which have collectively received over 10,000 citations. They can be found on Google Scholar.
