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Education

• Master of Business Administration, Keller Graduate School of Management, US
• Bachelor of Aerospace Engineering, Pennsylvania State University

Biography

David Cirulli is the Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University Aeronautics Chief of Operations for the Department of Flight in Asia, academic faculty, and a UAS-certified remote pilot and UAS subject matter expert.

Prior to joining Embry‑Riddle University, Mr. Cirulli was the Group Engineering Director of Kambyan Networks, a multinational Malaysia organization for the betterment of society with technology, where he humanised artificial intelligence through robotics process automation in field operations by connecting intelligent machines and applications in a complete Digital Twin Solution Platform for the Agro & Forestry Industry called MiDAgS™. As former Vice President and co-founder of CEMSol, a comprehensive, solutions-driven engineering and technical compan,y he pioneered the latest in airworthiness, regulatory and safety principles for small, medium-altitude long-endurance and high-altitude solar UAS. He has over 20 years’ experience in aviation and real-time engineering development, civil and military avionics systems, and FAA certifications.

Mr. Cirulli is a former Systems and Software Engineer at Honeywell Commercial Aviation Division. He spent more than 15 years in project management and in the development of both airborne and ground-based systems for commercial aviation. His systems and software fly in the most popular Boeing and Airbus commercial airlines, and he has participated in every major commercial aircraft development in the past two decades.

Mr. Cirulli served as Director of Programs at ENEA TekSci, where he completed the certification of electrical power distribution system for corporate jet marketplace and became a military avionics certification specialist using FAA DO-178B compliance. He is a professional trainer on the FAA standards for certification guidelines of both DO-178 software and DO-254 hardware. He has been involved with the FAA DER community over the past decade. As Programs Director at ENEA TekSci, he created the OSE design center, a selective product and services solution provider for the OSE operating system.

He specializes in compliance to high reliability and safety guidance standards for FAA, systems. He was verification lead on the RTCA SC-228 Detect and Avoid committee for Unmanned Systems. Most recently, he began his teaching profession with Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University as a professor and UAS subject matter expert.

Courses Taught

• ASCI 202 - Introduction to Aeronautical Science

Research Domains/Interests

• Advanced System Diagnostics and Health Management
• Unmanned and Robotics System Process Automation
• UAS Systems Airworthiness and Software Safety