Professor Hall is a retired USAF officer. He served in the USAF as an
electronics technician, as a satellite systems engineer at the “Blue
Cube” at Onizuka Air Force Base in Sunnyvale, California, and as a
professor of spacecraft dynamics, control, and design at the Air Force
Institute of Technology. He joined the faculty at Virginia Tech in 1997,
where he developed new space-related opportunities for undergraduate and
graduate students. He has been the Department Head of Aerospace and
Ocean Engineering since Fall 2006. He is a Fellow of the American
Astronautical Society, an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of
Aeronautics and Astronautics, and a member of the American Society of
Engineering Education. He is past Chair of the AIAA Astrodynamics
Technical Committee and has served on the AAS Space Flight Mechanics
Committee. He has served as Associate Editor of the AIAA Journal of
Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, the AAS Journal of the Astronautical
Sciences, and the journal Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy.
Professor Hall has advised nine Ph.D. students and more than 40 M.S.
students. Several of these former students are senior field grad
officers in the U.S. Air Force; one is a NASA Astronaut; and several are
dynamics and control experts at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
Professor Hall is currently advising three Ph.D. students and three M.S.
students, and employs several undergraduate students in the Space
Systems Simulation Laboratory. Dr. Hall has published more than 100
technical papers on various subjects in dynamics and control. He earned
his B.S. in Aerospace Engineering at Auburn University, M.S. in Systems
Engineering at the Air Force Institute of Technology, and Ph.D. in
Theoretical and Applied Mechanics at Cornell University.