Gabriel Elkin

Gabriel Elkin is an assistant leader of the Air Traffic Control and Weather Systems Group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. He oversees research in the areas of aviation cybersecurity, information architectures, and weather radar technologies.

Elkin joined the Laboratory in 1988 as a software engineering subcontractor in the System Design and Evaluation Group. In the 1990s, he developed algorithms and real-time software for a prototype major processing augmentation to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)’s Airport Surveillance Radar-9 (ASR-9). Elkin was appointed a technical staff member in the Air Traffic Surveillance Group in 1996. He led the successful development, integration, field testing, and technology transfer of the ASR-9 upgrade, which the FAA deployed nationwide in the early 2000s.

From 2000 to 2006, Elkin was a technical staff member in the Weather Sensing Group, where he led the successful development and field testing of a prototype upgrade to the Terminal Doppler Weather Radar receiver and signal processing systems. In 2006, Elkin transferred to the Kwajalein Field Site, and he served as the deputy program manager and lead system engineer for the development of a distributed operations command-and-control center in Huntsville, Alabama. In 2010, he was promoted to the position of assistant group leader of the Surveillance Systems Group, where he led programs in coordination with the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Transportation Command. In 2012, Elkin returned to Kwajalein as its field site manager. He oversaw staff activities in the improvement and modernization of test range sensors until 2015.

Elkin received an MS degree in computer science from Boston University and a BS degree in applied math/computer science from Union College in Schenectady, New York.