Air Traffic Control
Mark E. Weber - Biography
Dr. Mark E. Weber is Assistant Head of the Homeland Protection and Air Traffic Control Division at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. In this role, he is responsible for leadership of the Laboratory's Air Traffic Control mission area with emphasis on support to the FAA's Next Generation Air Transportation System initiative. The Laboratory's ATC activities include major programs in surveillance, weather, safety modeling, collision avoidance, automation and decision support.
Prior to this position, he was Leader of the Weather Sensing Group, which develops sensors, forecast algorithms, and processing technologies supporting the U.S. commercial aviation industry. Dr. Weber leads the group's efforts to develop enhanced weather surveillance capabilities for deployed Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) national radar networks, to develop and prototype high-resolution, automated weather forecast algorithms and to incorporate these forecasts into decision support tools that facilitate air traffic management during adverse weather.
His research interests have included experimental studies of thundercloud electrification phenomena, active sonar and radar data processing, radar-based low-altitude wind-shear detection systems, and technologies to improve the management of air traffic during convective weather.
Before joining the Laboratory in 1984, he worked at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory and the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory.
Dr. Weber holds a BA degree in physics from Washington University in St. Louis and a PhD degree in geophysics from Rice University.
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