About the Founder                                                                                  

Andrew L. Drozd is President and Chief Scientist of ANDRO Computational Solutions, LLC located at the Beeches Technical Campus in Rome, NY with offices in Bowie, MD. Since its establishment in 1994, ANDRO's focus has been on the development and application of state-of-the-art computational electromagnetics (CEM) integrated toolkits, computational frameworks, hybridized numerical solutions, and dynamic spectrum optimization for complex system electromagnetic problems. ANDRO's customers include NAVAIR, AFRL, Missile Defense Agency (MDA), Air Armament Center, US Air Force Academy, NASA, Raytheon, Underwriters Laboratories, Eaton Corporation, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Israeli Air Force, German Airborne Defence Systems (EADS), and the Defence Science & Technology Organisation (DSTO) of Australia. Under a contract with ITT Corporation, ANDRO supports efforts to further modernize and maintain the electromagnetic environment effects (E3) tools arsenal and perform spectrum engineering studies for the prime customer ― the DoD Joint Spectrum Center.

Mr. Drozd is the immediate Past President of the IEEE EMC Society (2006-2007) and is an IEEE Fellow "For the development of knowledge-based codes for modeling and simulation of complex systems for Electromagnetic Compatibility". He is on the Board of Directors of the IEEE EMC Society and continues in his role on the IEEE Technical Activities Board (TAB). Mr. Drozd is a Member of the IEEE Standards Association (SA). Additionally, he is a member of the IEEE EMC Society Standards Development Committee and is Chair of the P1597.1 and P1597.2 Working Groups for the development of an IEEE Standard for Validation of CEM Computer Modeling and Simulation (M&S) and a Recommended Practice for CEM Computer M&S Applications, respectively. His efforts along with those of the Working Groups he chairs have culminated in the first-of-its-kind standard and recommended practice for the validation of CEM techniques and computer codes. Additionally, he is a member of the IEEE EMC Society's Technical Committee TC-9 on Computational Electromagnetics and has been a contributor on behalf of TC-6 on Spectrum Management and EMC.

As an active Member of the IEEE EMC Society Education and Student Activities Committee, Mr. Drozd launched and spearheaded since 1992 an annual special workshop session on EMC experiments and modeling and simulation demonstrations held in conjunction with the annual International Symposium on EMC. Additionally, Mr. Drozd organized and chaired well over twenty conference technical sessions, special sessions, and workshops at annual international EMC symposia (IEEE EMC, EMC Roma, International Zurich Symposium and Technical Exhibition on EMC, etc), DoD E3 Program Reviews, Waveform Diversity, C3I Dual Use Technology and Applications, Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES) and other conferences. The focus of these various sessions and workshops was on numerical modeling, spectrum management and optimization, EMC and waveform diversity, software standards development, RF communications and sensor systems, and intelligent transportation systems.

He is an active participant in the work of the DoD Electromagnetic Code Consortium (EMCC). His other professional activities and memberships have included the IEEE MTT Society, Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), American Institute of Physics, Optics Society of America and he has been a Member of the ACES Board of Directors since 2006 and Chair of the Industry Relations Committee since 2002. He is an iNARTE (International Association of Radio and Telecommunications Engineers) Certified EMC Engineer since the program's inception. Mr. Drozd is a Member of the Executive Board of the AFCEA Erie Canal Chapter.

His fields of interest and expertise include CEM and the development of E3 tools for RF antenna modeling and analysis. Mr. Drozd's responsibilities include: systems engineering; E3 computer modeling, simulation and analysis; novel applications of AI/expert system technologies to CEM analysis; radar cross section (RCS); software development and 3-D visualization tools. Mr. Drozd continues to apply his over 30 years of technical and program experience in electromagnetic technologies primarily in the area of computer modeling. In recent years, he has been involved in applying AI/expert systems to the domain of electromagnetics problem solving. He has developed E3 software products under contracts with the US Air Force Research Laboratory and Naval Air Warfare Center, namely, the E3Expert toolkit, which is a progressive computer modeling and simulation capability and a computational framework that provides electromagnetic solutions for complex system using a stepwise multi-fidelity approach.

From 1984 to 1994, Mr. Drozd was a Senior Scientist at Kaman Sciences Corporation where he managed an EMC Engineering Group. Prior to that he was an EMC Test Engineer for the General Electric Underwater Electronics Programs Department where he led MIL-STD- 461/462 and MIL-E-6051 EMC measurement programs. During the 1983 to 1984 period he was an Instructor for Syracuse University teaching courses on Electromagnetics and Physics. From 1978 to 1983, he was the Lead EMC Engineer for the IIT Research Institute Intrasystem Analysis Program Support Center which was responsible for maintaining the inventory of US Air Force EM computer software codes. During the period 1976 to 1978 Mr. Drozd was a Technical Assistant for the US Air Force Rome Air Development Center (RADC) where he provided technical services to government test and computer simulation engineers on behalf of electromagnetic code modification and validation. He also conducted laboratory measurements aimed at assessing component high-frequency parasitic effects and nonlinear responses in the HF/VHF regime.

Mr. Drozd has authored and co-written over 150 technical papers, reports, and journal articles on topics related to: system-level electromagnetic interference (EMI) analysis, numerical modeling and simulation, dynamic spectrum management, and automated target recognition (ATR). He published chapters on Computer Modeling and Simulation for EMC in the EMC/EMI Principles, Measurement & Technologies Study Guide. He also contributed a chapter on EMC Modeling and Simulation for the 1st and 2nd Eds. of the Wiley/IEEE Press book titled Engineering Electromagnetic Compatibility: Principles, Measurements, Technologies, and Computer Models by V. P. Kodali. In 1991 he received a best paper award for his publication in the EMC Expo Proceedings titled, "Analysis of EMI for Shuttle/Space Station Communications Links: An Expert System Approach".

Mr. Drozd received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Physics and Mathematics in 1977 from Syracuse University, and a Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering specializing in RF Communications and Signal Processing in 1982 also from Syracuse University.

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