Damon Lercel
Engineering · Purdue University West Lafayette
Publications
25
Citations
94
Est. group size
~3
Recurring co-author estimate
Active years
17
Publishing since 2010
Damon Lercel's research focuses on aviation safety and operations, particularly around unmanned aircraft systems (drones), aircraft inspection, and airspace management. Recent work applies emerging technologies like AI, graph neural networks, and extended reality (XR) to problems such as detecting defects in aircraft engines, mapping visual inspection workflows, and measuring congestion in advanced air mobility (e.g., drone and air taxi) airspace. Other work examines safety reporting practices, regulatory policy, and human factors in UAS (uncrewed aircraft system) operations.
Publication output has grown over the last decade, rising from occasional single papers in 2018-2020 to a notably higher and more frequent output in 2025-2026.
Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026
- Process Mapping of Aircraft Visual Inspection Processes Using UML Frameworks for Proposing Readiness of Emerging Technologies
SSRN Electronic Journal · 2026
- A Graph Neural Network-Based Approach to Measure Advanced Air Mobility Airspace Congestion
2026
- Correction: A Graph Neural Network-Based Approach to Measure Advanced Air Mobility Airspace Congestion
2026
- Barriers and Facilitators to Integrating AI and XR Technologies for Aircraft Inspection
Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting · 2025
- A Lightweight Anomaly Detection Model in Aero Turbine Borescope Using Unsupervised Deep Learning
2025
- Large Vision Language Models for Anomaly Detection in Aircraft Inspection with Inspectors in the Loop
2025
- The State of UAS Operations at Airports, A Perspective from Airport Managers
The Journal of Aviation/Aerospace Education and Research · 2025
- The State of UAS Operations at Airports, A Perspective from Airport Managers
Preprints.org · 2024
- Exploring the State of SMS Implementation at Airports
Collegiate Aviation Review International · 2023
- Democratizing photogrammetry: an accuracy perspective
Geo-spatial Information Science · 2023
- Exploring the Use of Geographic Information Systems to Identify Spatial Patterns of Remote UAS Pilots and Possible National Airspace Risk
Safety · 2023
- The Current State of Safety Reporting in Unmanned Aircraft Maintenance and Manufacturing: An Opportunity for Improvement
Collegiate Aviation Review International · 2022
- Cognitive Task Analysis of Unmanned Aircraft System Pilots
The International Journal of Aerospace Psychology · 2021
- The Use of Aviation Safety Practices in UAS Operations: A Review
Collegiate Aviation Review International · 2021
- UAS Safety Zones: A Model for Addressing Increased Air Traffic Controller Workload
CORE Scholar (Wright State University) · 2021
- Collegiate Aviation Review International×4
- The Journal of Aviation/Aerospace Education and Research×2
- The International Journal of Aerospace Psychology×1
- Geo-spatial Information Science×1
- Safety×1
- Amy Spencer
Engineering · The Ohio State University
- Shantanu Gupta
Engineering · Purdue University West Lafayette
- John H. Mott
Engineering · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Mary E. Johnson
Engineering · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Dengfeng Sun
Engineering · Purdue University West Lafayette
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.
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