Education: Aaron K. Shackelford received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering in 1999, 2001, and 2004, respectively, from the University of Missouri-Columbia.

Accomplishments: Since 2004, Dr. Shackelford has been employed by the Radar Division of the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., USA. His research interests include adaptive signal processing, waveform diversity techniques, pattern recognition, and remote sensing.

Awards/Honors: Dr. Shackelford received the 2007 Naval Research Laboratory Alan Berman Research Publication award and was a recipient of the NASA Graduate Student Researchers Program Fellowship.