Jia Xu

CEO at SkyGrid

Jia Xu currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of SkyGrid, a company focused on enabling autonomous flight through high-assurance third-party services, since August 2023. Prior to this role, Jia Xu held various leadership positions at Honeywell, including Chief Technology Officer and Senior Director of Engineering for Urban Air Mobility (UAM) and Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), from April 2020 to August 2023. Additional experience includes serving as an Adjunct Lecturer in Applied Aerodynamics at Stanford University, Chief Architect for Urban Air Mobility Systems at Acubed, and Associate Director at RAND Corporation's National Defense Research Institute, among other roles. Jia Xu's academic background includes a PhD in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford University, an MSc in Advanced Computational Methods for Aeronautics from Imperial College London, an MSc in International Relations with highest distinction from The London School of Economics and Political Science, and a BS in Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology.

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