Gabriel Elkin

Gabriel Elkin is an assistant leader of the Air Traffic Control and Weather Systems Group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. In this role, he oversees research in the areas of aviation cyber security, information architectures and weather sensing technologies. Elkin joined the Laboratory in 1988 as a software engineering subcontractor developing aircraft tracking algorithms, became a Technical Staff member in the ATC Systems Group in 1996 and later the Weather Sensing Group where he led the successful development, field testing and technology transfer of major processing augmentations to both the aircraft surveillance radar (ASR-9PAC) and the Terminal Doppler Weather Radar (TDWR) receiver and data acquisition system. He also served two field assignments spanning seven years at the Reagan Test Site (RTS) on the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands as a command and control systems engineer and field site manager. In between Kwaj tours, he spent two years overseeing research in the area of homeland security and disaster preparedness. Prior to joining the Laboratory, Elkin worked at the MITRE Corporation in Bedford, MA, where he developed software systems for surveillance and communication applications. He received a M.S. from Boston University in Computer Science, and a B.S. in Applied Math and Computer Science from Union College in Schenectady, NY.