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Research partnerships

I'm open to funded research collaboration.

Universities, air navigation service providers, regulators and industry groups working on surveillance integrity, GNSS interference or unmanned-aircraft safety: this page says what I bring, what I'm looking for, and how a collaboration usually starts. Everything I publish is open, and the pipelines behind it are ready to be pointed at a new question.

Eugene Pik, Founder, Mevocopter AerospacePh.D. researcher, University of EssexORCID

600B+ADS-B messages processed across the published studies and GET-25
9open data and code releases on Zenodo, CC BY or Apache 2.0
9peer-reviewed papers since 2022, in RESS, JAIS, JTS, IJAMD, JATS, IEEE ICNS and AIAA AVIATION

What I bring

Data pipelines at scale. Working pipelines over the OpenSky Network's full historical archive, processed through Trino, that turn hundreds of billions of surveillance messages into per-aircraft, per-region, per-hour integrity measures. The scripts are open; the experience of running them at this scale, and of what goes wrong, is not something you can download.

Statistical modelling of observational data. The Global Envelope Thresholding framework for traffic-normalized anomaly baselines, temporal-clustering and recurrence analysis, survival and hazard models, and the discipline of separating a surveillance artefact from a navigation event. Every method is documented in a paper and reproducible from a release.

Aviation domain knowledge. Operations, airworthiness certification, the regulatory landscape for UAS in Europe and North America, and the practical constraints of small operators and manufacturers, from consulting work and from an earlier aircraft-design program.

Open-science practice. Nine data and code releases with DOIs, licensed for reuse, and papers in journals that allow the accepted manuscript to be shared. A collaboration with me will not end with the data locked in a drawer.

Writing. First-author papers through review at Elsevier, AIAA and Springer journals, and the ability to turn a result into a manuscript, a poster or a report for a regulator without a translator.

What I'm looking for

  • Co-authored studies on ADS-B and surveillance integrity, GNSS interference and its operational effects, ghost-record and spoofing detection, and unmanned-aircraft safety data, especially ones that pair my global surveillance view with data I cannot see from the outside.
  • Data partnerships. Access to ANSP or airport surveillance feeds, flight-data-monitoring records, GNSS receiver logs, or incident and occurrence databases, in exchange for analysis, co-authorship and a report the partner can use. Data can stay on the partner's premises; I can work under agreements and inside your environment.
  • Funded projects. I am the industry partner or the analyst on a proposal, or the subcontractor for the data and modelling work package. Mevocopter Aerospace is a federally incorporated Canadian company and can contract, invoice and hold intellectual-property agreements.
  • Doctoral and visiting-researcher arrangements. My doctoral research at the University of Essex (Data Science) covers kinematic integrity and security in automated aviation systems; a hosted period with a lab or an ANSP working on the same questions would suit both sides.

Funding routes I can work within

Which route fits depends on where the lead partner sits. In Canada, an industry partner on Mitacs Accelerate or NSERC Alliance projects with a Canadian university, and contract research for Transport Canada or NAV CANADA programs through a prime. In the United Kingdom and Europe, a partner or subcontractor on Innovate UK, UKRI, Horizon Europe and SESAR work through a university or an ANSP consortium. In the United States, the data-analysis partner for FAA, NASA or university-led programs where a Canadian participant is eligible. I have not led a grant application yet; I am a strong second name on one.

Who I have worked with

  • Joao S. D. GarciaEmbry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Co-author on the JAIS GPS-anomaly paper, the NTSB UAV study and GET-25.
  • Timothy A. SmithCo-author on GET-25 and the ghost-records work.
  • Christian Janke and Jan UijtdehaagEmbry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Co-authors on the ICNS 2025 paper on global UAS regulation.
  • Matthew Berra and Jeff YearwoodEmbry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Co-authors on the AIAA AVIATION 2024 GPS-anomalies paper.
  • Robert Deters, Or Dantsker and Amy ChangEmbry-Riddle and Indiana University. Co-authors on the AIAA AVIATION 2024 propeller mass-sizing paper.
  • The OpenSky NetworkNon-profit surveillance data infrastructure that every one of the ADS-B studies depends on.

How to start

Send a message through the contact form with the topic set to research collaboration, or email info@mevocopter.com. Three things help: the question you are working on, the data you have or want, and the timeline and funding context, if there is one. I reply within one business day and I am happy to start with a 30-minute call and a one-page concept note.

If you would rather see the work first, the Research page has every paper with abstract, DOI and full text, and the datasets page has the releases.

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