Arturo Villegas

Dr. Arturo Villegas is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at XTT. Dr. Villegas is the co-inventor of the XTT aerodynamic deflector technology. He received is PhD degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in May 2014 at Rutgers University (NJ). Dr. Villegas main research of interest is within the area of fluid dynamics. This include the study of wings and wind turbine aerodynamics, particle image velocimetry, Navier-Stokes equations, wind and water tunnel experiments, turbulent flows and electrokinetics.

Dr. Villegas has published 8 journal publications on top scientific journals and 7 conference papers presented on main fluid dynamics conferences. His research has been funded by a collaboration between DOT and CAIT (Rutgers), and NSF SBIR.