Summary
Austin Lu is a systems engineer with 12 years of experience specializing in safety-critical airborne systems and Advanced Air Mobility across coastal environments. At REGENT he has led ARP 4761-compliant FTA/FMEA development, automated V&V traceability between Jama and MATLAB, and instituted company-wide safety processes that produced 100+ mitigations for an electric fly-by-wire vehicle. He brings hands-on simulation and data automation skills—SIL Simulink verification, Python scripting, and agent-based energy modeling—to reduce risk and accelerate development of vehicle controllers and vertiport energy systems. A Purdue MS graduate, Austin blends academic rigor with startup grit, having contributed to award-winning UAM ventures and patented power-grid optimization approaches for eVTOL charging. Pragmatic and cross-functional, he bridges engineering, regulatory, and business stakeholders to translate novel AAM concepts into auditable, deployable systems.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, 3.78/4.00, Master of Science - MS, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, 3.78/4.00 at Purdue University
English, Chinese, French