FACULTY NEWS
New Faculty
Dr. Alton Hutchinson Assistant Professor
Dr. Surabhi Bhadauria Assistant Professor
Dr. Alton Hutchinson earned his Ph.D. from Texas A&M University in December 2024. He joined Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University as a Visiting Assistant Professor in 2025 and now serves
Dr. Surabhi Bhadauria earned her Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Purdue University and a B.S. in Materials and Metallurgical Engineering from Punjab Engineering
as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering. His research interests include sonic boom propagation and mitigation, high‑speed aerodynamics, gas dynamics and numerical simulations. He has authored more than 50 publications and received 20 international awards.
College in India. Her research focuses on astrodynamics and space situational awareness, with an emphasis on cislunar space surveillance, sensor network strategies for detecting and tracking space objects as well as supporting safe and sustainable space operations.
Dr. Andrew Bustard Assistant Professor
Dr. Eric Matlis Associate Professor
Dr. Andrew Bustard earned his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 2025. His research focuses on extending the operational capabilities of supersonic‑combustion ramjets,
Dr. Matlis earned his Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame in 2004. Before joining Embry-Riddle, he served as an associate research professor at the University of Notre Dame. His research interests
with the goal of enabling ultra‑fast global flight. He employs advanced surface measurement techniques, including pressure‑sensitive paint and infrared thermography, which provide significantly higher spatial resolution than conventional measurement methods. His additional research interests include boundary‑layer transition, hypersonic facility development and flow control.
include boundary-layer stability over a broad range of Mach numbers, flow-control, sensor development, acoustics of rotor systems and aerothermal research at high enthalpy hypersonic conditions. He has also developed novel methods in the utilization of non-equilibrium cold plasmas for sensing, wavefront aberration control and as a reconfigurable left-handed metamaterial. Matlis contributed to the development of the Notre Dame Quiet Mach 10 tunnel and is assisting in the development of a new hypersonic laboratory at Embry-Riddle. Matlis is an associate fellow of AIAA and has earned 5 patents.
Dr. Francisco Crespo Cutillas Associate Professor Dr. Francisco Crespo Cutillas’ research integrates geometric and dynamical systems methods with applications in spacecraft trajectory design, orbital dynamics and celestial mechanics. His work
emphasizes analytical and computational approaches to mission design, including spin–orbit modeling near small bodies. He has teaching experience in dynamical systems, orbital and attitude mechanics as well as applied mathematics. Prior to joining Embry‑Riddle, he served as an associate professor in Chile and held research appointments at the University of Colorado Boulder and the Sydney Mathematical Research Institute.
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