Jose Magalhaes

Research Engineer II
Telephone
Office Building
Guggenheim
Office Room Number
447A
Biography

José Magalhães received a B.Sc. degree in Electronic Engineering from IME (Instituto Militar de Engenharia) and M.Sc. degree in Air Transportation from ITA (Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica) in Brazil. He received a M.Sc. degree in Aerospace Engineering and a Ph.D. degree in Robotics from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2019 and 2023 respectively. Before joining Georgia Tech, he worked for GE Global Research Center as an aviation system researcher and for EMBRAER as a product development engineer. He is a Senior Member of AIAA. His research interests are in controls, optimization, machine learning, cyber-physical systems and autonomous systems.

Research

Lab/Collaboration:

Disciplines:

  • System Dynamics and Vibration
  • AE 4803 - Foundations of Scientific Machine Learning (Summer 2026)
  • AE 3531 - Control System Analysis and Design (Fall 2025)
  • AE 3530 - System Dynamics and Vibration (Fall 2024)


AE Multidisciplinary Research Areas:

• Robotics, Autonomy, and Human Interactions

• Urban Air Mobility, Air Traffic management, Control Theory, Reinforcement Learning

 

Education
  • PhD , Robotics, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • MSc, Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • MSc, Air Transportation, Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica (ITA - Brazil)
  • MEng, System Engineering, Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica (ITA - Brazil)
  • BSc., Electrical Engineering, Instituto Militar de Engenharia (IME -Brazil)