Richard Miles (aerospace engineer)

Richard Miles is Distinguished University Professor at the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University. He was Chairman of the Department of Engineering Physics at Princeton for 16 years (1980–1996). He has been a member of the National Academy of Engineering since 2011. He has developed and researched lasers as tools for studying hypersonic flow patterns.

Richard Miles
Alma materStanford University
Scientific career
FieldsAerospace Engineering, Rayleigh scattering, Plasma aerodynamics & hypersonics
InstitutionsPrinceton University, Texas A&M University
Doctoral advisorStephen E. Harris