Timothy Sands
Dr. Timothy Sands graduated from Columbia University, Stanford University, and the Naval Postgraduate School. He is an International Scholar Laureate of the Golden Key International Honor Society, a Fellow of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, a panelist for the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program, and an interviewer for undergraduate admissions at Stanford University. He has published extensively in archival journals, conference proceedings, books, and book chapters, in addition to delivering plenary, keynote, and invited presentations. He holds a patent in spacecraft attitude control. He was ranked among the world’s top 2% of scientists in 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004 (top 0.489%: 285 out of 58,309 in-field) and was nominated for the Theodore von Kármán Award for the most outstanding contribution in the field of science and engineering during thirty-two years’ service in the U.S. Air Force. He previously served as Associate Dean of the Naval Postgraduate School’s Graduate School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, as well as a university chief academic officer, dean, and research center director.
