Warren Hoburg
MIT AeroAstro
Warren (Woody) Hoburg joined the MIT faculty in August 2014 as a Boeing Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He received a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from MIT and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. During his Ph.D. research, Woody developed a new approach to formulating aircraft design as an optimization problem. As a result, he has been able to apply the powerful solvers of geometric programming to achieve a highly efficient and scalable design optimization framework. He continued his research at Boeing’s Product Development and Applied Math sectors, where he formulated optimization approaches to composite ply and test coupon layouts. The outcome is a capability for Boeing that rearranges material usage in important composite stress and material analysis proof of concept studies so that they can be completed in two weeks instead of the six months it previously required. Boeing uses Woody’s new capability in production every day. He has been the recipient of many awards including the UCB Graduate Student Instructor Award, the NSF IGERT Fellowship, and the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
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