Ginger Shao

Through her 23+ years of experience in Aerospace and Defense, Ginger led the development and implementation of intelligent products and services by integrating machine learning with physics-based modeling and domain knowledge. In this work, Ginger has acquired deep leadership experience in engineering management, business proposal development, technology pipeline management, and intellectual property portfolio process development. Ginger works closely with SkyThread and its customers to develop products and services that meet customers’ needs.

Prior to SkyThread, Ginger held the position of Sr. Director and Distinguished Fellow at Honeywell Aerospace and Honeywell Connected Enterprise. In that role, Ginger led complex system model-based engineering and analytics system development, with applications to aircraft, ground, and unmanned platforms. She has hands-on experience building digital twins, working on data acquisition and management, machine learning, and service product solutions. The systems she worked on have been applied to more than 100 airlines. Ginger also has extensive experience in working with the contract, business, sales, marketing, and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) functions for business evaluations and pursuits development.

Ginger also has extensive involvement in industry standard development. She was the Founding Chair of SAE’s Digital and Data Steering Group and was Vice-Chair of SAE’s HM-1 Committee. Ginger also served as Co-Chair of the 2019 Prognostics and Health Management Annual Conference. Ginger is a certified 6-Sigma blackbelt, holds several patents, and has published several peer-reviewed papers and consensus-vetted standards.