Boris S. Pervan

  • Frank Gunsaulus Faculty Fellow in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
  • Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
  • Director, CARNATIONS

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Education

Ph.D. Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University, 1996
M.S. Aeronautics, California Institute of Technology, 1987
B.S. Aerospace Engineering, University of Notre Dame, 1986

Research Interests

  • Positioning, navigation, and timing
  • Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and GPS
  • Integrity monitoring and robust state estimation
  • Anti-spoofing and anti-jamming
  • Inertial and laser sensing
  • Aircraft navigation and precision landing
  • Unmanned aerial vehicles and driverless cars

Professional Affiliations & Memberships

Awards

Johannes Kepler Award, 2022

MMAE Excellence in Research Award, 2022

Illinois Researchers to Know, Illinois Science & Technology Coalition, 2019  

Associate Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2012

Sigma Xi Award for Outstanding Research and Scholarship, Illinois Institute of Technology, 2005, 2012
Caterpillar Excellence in Research Award, MMAE Department, Illinois Institute of Technology, 2007

Fellow, Institute of Navigation, 2010

University Excellence in Teaching Award, Illinois Institute of Technology, 2005

Ralph Barnett Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award, MMAE Department, Illinois Institute of Technology, 2002

M. Barry Carlton Award, IEEE, 1999

Best-of-Session Paper Awards, Institute of Navigation, 1992, 1993, 1997, and 1999

Satellite Division Best Paper Awards, Institute of Navigation, 1992, 1993, and 1997

RTCA William E. Jackson Award, 1996

Guggenheim Fellow, California Institute of Technology, 1986-87

Albert J. Zahm Prize in Aeronautics, Notre Dame, 1986

Sigma Gamma Tau (Aerospace Honorary), 1986

Tau Beta Pi (Engineering Honorary), 1986

Publications

Google Scholar Profile

Expertise

Navigation, guidance, and control of dynamic systems.

Media Appearances

Illinois Tech Will Lead Fight Against Transportation Hacking With $10 Million DOT Grant

Supply Chain Quarterly

“Spoofing vehicles can be very dangerous,” says Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Boris Pervan. “If you spoof one car, and that information gets passed on to others, it’s infecting the whole system. On the other hand, the information from the other vehicles could be of some use to tell you that you’re being spoofed, so right now we have no idea how that trade-off will play out.”

Illinois Tech’s CARNATIONS Program Named Tier 1 University Transportation Center

Mass Transit

Illinois Institute of Technology's Center for Assured and Resilient Navigation in Advanced Transportation Systems (CARNATIONS), led by Professor Boris Pervan, was named a new Tier 1 University Transportation Center (UTC) by the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT). As a Tier 1 UTC, CARNATIONS will receive a $10 million grant from USDOT for improving transportation navigation systems by making them more resilient to cyber attacks such as spoofing and jamming.