What I bring
Data pipelines at scale. For the published studies I built and ran pipelines 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.
Funding routes I can work within
Which route fits depends on where the lead partner sits. In Canada, as the industry partner on Mitacs Accelerate or NSERC Alliance projects with a Canadian university, or as a subcontractor on contract research for Transport Canada or NAV CANADA programs. In the United Kingdom and Europe, as a partner or subcontractor on Innovate UK, UKRI, Horizon Europe and SESAR work through a university or an ANSP consortium. In the United States, as the data-analysis partner on FAA, NASA or university-led programs that accept a Canadian participant. If you are preparing a proposal and need someone to carry the data and modelling work package, that is the conversation I am looking for.
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.
Propose a collaboration
A question, a dataset or a call for proposals is enough to begin.
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