William Crossley
Computer Science · Purdue University West Lafayette
Publications
147
Citations
2,297
Est. group size
—
Recurring co-author estimate
Active years
57
Publishing since 1970
William Crossley works on aerospace systems design, focusing on optimization methods for aircraft, small unmanned aircraft, and urban/regional air mobility systems. His research also examines the environmental impacts of aviation, including emissions, sustainable fuels, and space debris reentry effects, often combining mathematical optimization techniques with engineering design and policy questions. This work is relevant to students interested in applying computational optimization to real-world transportation and environmental sustainability problems.
Publication output has been variable but roughly steady over the past decade, with a small recent uptick in 2025-2026 after a low period around 2022.
Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026
- Space Debris and Stratospheric Ozone: Modeling and Analysis of the Sustainability of Reentry Disposal
2026
- ORACLE: Operating Risk Assessment Calculator for Limited-infrastructure Environments
2026
- Evaluating Potential Carbon Emissions Operational Limits on Urban Air Mobility with Ridesharing
Journal of Air Transportation · 2026
- Initial Estimation of the Number of Urban Air Mobility Operations at Aerodromes to Assess Operational Limits
2025
- Hybrid optimization schemes for solving the piezoresistive inversion problem in self-sensing materials
Smart Materials and Structures · 2024
- Optimization and Decision-Making Framework for Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Fleet Design
Journal of Aircraft · 2023
- Modeling CO<sub>2</sub> Emissions from Trips using Urban Air Mobility and Emerging Automobile Technologies
Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board · 2021
- Estimating the Reduction in Future Fleet-Level CO2 Emissions From Sustainable Aviation Fuel
Frontiers in Energy Research · 2021
- Future Regional Air Mobility Analysis Using Conventional, Electric, and Autonomous Vehicles
Journal of Air Transportation · 2021
- A Hybrid Approach for Solving Constrained Multi-Objective Mixed-Discrete Nonlinear Programming Engineering Problems
IntechOpen eBooks · 2021
- Identifying and Analyzing Operations Limits for Passenger-Carrying Urban Air Mobility Missions
AIAA AVIATION 2020 FORUM · 2020
- Monolithic Approach for Next-Generation Aircraft Design Considering Airline Operations and Economics
Journal of Aircraft · 2019
- A Mixed Integer Efficient Global Optimization Algorithm with Multiple Infill Strategy - Applied to a Wing Topology Optimization Problem
AIAA Scitech 2019 Forum · 2019
- A Multi-Fidelity Approach to Address Multi-Objective Mixed-Discrete Nonlinear Programming Problems
2018
- A Study to Compare Deterministic and Non-Deterministic Multi-point Optimization for Airfoil Shape Design
2018
- Journal of Aircraft×3
- Journal of Air Transportation×2
- Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board×1
- Frontiers in Energy Research×1
- Smart Materials and Structures×1
- Prathamesh Chaudhari
Computer Science · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Jay I. Myung
Computer Science · The Ohio State University
- Guoyu Chen
Computer Science · The Ohio State University
- Hao Wang
Computer Science · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Leifur Leifsson
Computer Science · Purdue University West Lafayette
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.
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