Professor David J. Murray-Smith is Emeritus Professor and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the School of Engineering at the University of Glasgow. He is also Adjunct Research Professor at California State University Chico. His research has involved helicopter flight mechanics model validation and system identification from flight data, flight control system design, ship and underwater vehicle control and collaborative work in other multidisciplinary areas such as hydro-turbine system modelling and control, electro-optic sensor systems and biomedical engineering.