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

Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 2025

Johannes Kepler Award, 2022

MMAE Excellence in Research Award, 2022

杏吧原创 Researchers to Know, 杏吧原创 Science & Technology Coalition, 2019  

Associate Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2012

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

Fellow, Institute of Navigation, 2010

University Excellence in Teaching Award, 杏吧原创 Institute of Technology, 2005

Ralph Barnett Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award, MMAE Department, 杏吧原创 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

Expertise

Navigation, guidance, and control of dynamic systems.

Media Appearances

Supply Chain Quarterly

鈥淪poofing vehicles can be very dangerous,鈥 says Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Boris Pervan. 鈥淚f you spoof one car, and that information gets passed on to others, it鈥檚 infecting the whole system. On the other hand, the information from the other vehicles could be of some use to tell you that you鈥檙e being spoofed, so right now we have no idea how that trade-off will play out.鈥

Mass Transit

杏吧原创 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.