Bong Wie is the Vance D. Coffman Endowed Chair Professor of Aerospace Engineering at Iowa State University. He holds a B.S. in aerospace engineering from Seoul National University and a M.S. and Ph.D. in aeronautics and astronautics from Stanford University. In 2006 he received AIAA’s Mechanics and Control of Flight Award for his innovative research on advanced control of complex spacecraft such as solar sails, large flexible structures, and agile imaging satellites equipped with control moment gyros. He has three patents on singularity-avoidance steering logic of control moment gyros. From 2011-2014, he was a NIAC (NASA Advanced Innovative Concepts) Fellow for developing an innovative solution to NASA’s near-Earth object (NEO) impact threat mitigation grand challenge and its flight validation mission design. He is an Associate Fellow of AIAA.