MIAMI Members

Professor Vincent Correia

 Professor Correia is the co-director of the McGill Institute of Air and Space Law. He has an extensive background in research related to Public International Law and Air Law. Notably, he has produced scholarship in English, French, and Spanish.

Victoria Geraldine Alcaraz Ortega

Victoria Geraldine Alcaraz Ortega is an Air Traffic Services Instructor at CAE in Montréal, where she delivers initial and simulator-based training for future air traffic controllers in Canada. Prior to joining CAE, she worked as an air traffic controller with SENEAM in Mexico, providing aerodrome control services at La Paz International Airport, Tapachula International Airport, and Cancún International Airport, as well as area control services at the Mexico City Area Control Center. Victoria holds a Bachelor’s degree in Interpretation from the Instituto Superior de Intérpretes y Traductores (ISIT), a Bachelor of Laws from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), and a Master of Laws in Air and Space Law from McGill University. She was awarded the International Aerospace Women Association (IAWA) Scholarship in 2025. Her work and research focus on international responsibility in air navigation services and wake turbulence. 

Dr. Vincent Barbaud

Vincent has over 10 years of experience within the legal department at Airbus. Having previously served as Litigation and Regulatory Counsel, he is currently Lead Counsel for Aviation Law and Certification. Prior to this, he served at the French Permanent Representation to the ICAO Council and within the legal department of the French national civil aviation authority. Holding a PhD in aviation law and as a French qualified lawyer, Vincent also serves as a Legal Advisor within the French Armed Forces. He remains actively involved in academic circles, most recently co-organizing an international symposium with the University of Bordeaux and McGill University on the contemporary evolutions of air law, and he regularly publishes legal articles in this field.

Dr. Maxime Cloutier

Maxime Cloutier is a Principal in Oliver Wyman’s Transportation practice, where he advises transportation operators and service providers on strategy, operational resilience, transformation, and technology. His work spans aviation, airports, rail, and broader mobility, with experience across North American and Asia-Pacific markets. He has a particular interest in how artificial intelligence and emerging technologies can reshape transportation operations, decision-making, and business models. Maxime holds a PhD in materials engineering from Laval University and UPMC Sorbonne Universités. 

Alexie Côté

Alexie Côté is the Advanced Air Mobility OEM Relationships & Growth Manager at CAE, where she leads strategic engagement with aircraft manufacturers and industry partners to support innovation and growth across the aviation ecosystem. She holds a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in international law, as well as an MBA and has expertise in international affairs, business aviation, strategic partnerships, and market development. Alexie works closely with OEMs, operators, and emerging technology stakeholders to advance the adoption of next-generation aviation solutions, while advocating a safety-first approach to Advanced Air Mobility, including eVTOL technologies, and addressing the regulatory, operational, and ecosystem considerations required for their successful integration into the future air transportation landscape. 

Andrew Harrington

Andrew is currently the Deputy General Counsel – Underwriting for QBE Insurance, Australia’s largest general aviation insurer. He has previously worked for the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, in private practice with a boutique aviation law firm in Sydney and in-house for an international airline in Dubai and an aviation and defence services company based in Australia. Andrew holds a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws from Murdoch University in Perth, Australia and a Masters of Laws in Air & Space Law from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. 

Frédéric Malaud

Frédéric Malaud is Chief of the RPAS Section at ICAO, leading the Organization’s global work on RPAS, UAS, UTM and Advanced Air Mobility. Before joining ICAO in 2010, he worked as a professional pilot and flight instructor in Montréal, Canada. He is admitted to the New York and Paris Bars, holds Master’s degrees in Law and Anglo‑American Legal Studies from the University of Paris X and holds an Airline Transport Pilot Licence with instrument, multi‑engine and instructor ratings. 

Professor Siva Nadarajah

Prof. Siva Nadarajah is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at McGill University and Director of the McGill Institute for Aerospace Engineering (MIAE). He leads the Computational Aerodynamics Group, where his research focuses on the development of next-generation algorithms for aerodynamic design optimization, high-order computational fluid dynamics, large-eddy simulation, adaptive mesh refinement, reduced-order modelling, and high-performance computing. He is internationally recognized for pioneering contributions to adjoint-based aerodynamic shape optimization and high-order numerical methods for complex aerospace flows. In recent years, Prof. Nadarajah’s research has advanced nonlinear stability theory for flux reconstruction and discontinuous Galerkin methods, leading to some of the first provably stable high-order schemes for compressible flows. His recent publications have focused on entropy-stable discretizations, robust shock-capturing strategies, wall-modelled large-eddy simulation, and adaptive high-order methods for turbulent flows. He has also made significant contributions to adjoint methods for chaotic dynamical systems, including the development of stabilized approaches for sensitivity analysis and optimization of turbulent and chaotic flows, enabling reliable gradient computations for problems that were previously intractable using conventional adjoint techniques. His work integrates applied mathematics, computational science, and aerospace engineering to develop accurate, scalable, and industrially relevant algorithms for next-generation simulation and design. Prof. Nadarajah serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications and is an AIAA Associate Fellow. He has collaborated extensively with industry partners including Airbus Canada, Bombardier, and other Aerospace companies, helping transition advanced computational methods into industrial aerospace applications. He has supervised numerous graduate students and postdoctoral researchers who now hold leadership positions in academia and industry worldwide, and regularly organizes major international conferences and workshops in computational fluid dynamics, high-order methods, and scientific computing. 

Michael Nas

Michael has 15 years’ experience in commercial legal practice in Australia, spanning disputes and transactional work. He began researching the legal issues surrounding Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS, or “drones”) in 2007 and has remained closely engaged with developments in the sector through both research and practice. He holds a Master of Laws (Research) from Murdoch University, conferred in 2016, and recently completed a Master of Laws (Air & Space Law) at McGill University. Michael is now a doctoral student at McGill, where his research focuses on the international legal framework for autonomous and uncrewed aircraft, and is also Consultant – Defence & Aerospace with Bennett Litigation and Commercial Law in Perth. He has been actively involved in the Australian aviation and drone sectors, including as a former Board member of the Aviation Law Association of Australia & New Zealand, before moving to Montréal. 

Professor Gabriela Nicolescu

La professeure Gabriela Nicolescu est experte reconnue en cybersécurité aérospatial. Elle est professeure titulaire à Polytechnique Montréal et titulaire principale de la Chaire de recherche industrielle sur la Cybersécurité des systèmes d'aéronefs. Elle est également la directrice du département de génie informatique et génie logiciel de Polytechnique Montréal. Prof. Nicolescu  dirige plusieurs projets d’envergure en étroite collaboration avec des acteurs industriels majeurs de l’aérospatial. Son laboratoire de recherche HESL (Laboratoire des systèmes hétérogènes embarqués) est équipé d’un simulateur de vol, des cartes électroniques pour l’aérospatial ainsi qu’un cyber-range). 

Dr. S. Mike Pavelec

Dr. Pavelec earned his doctorate at The Ohio State University in 2004, in the history of science and technology with a military focus. His dissertation was the basis for his first book, The Jet Race and the Second World War. He taught at Hawaii Pacific University, the U.S. Naval War College, the School of Advanced Air and Space Studies (SAASS), Air Command and Staff College, and the Joint Advanced Warfighting School (JAWS). He was back at ACSC before transitioning to the Department of Spacepower, which is now the Schriever Space Scholars at Johns Hopkins University – SAIS. He was the director of the Schriever Space Scholars before returning to Montreal, Canada. He currently teaches sessional classes at McGill and is an advisor for the 3 Canadian Space Division for strategy and policy. 

Wesley Reid

Wesley Reid is an aerospace product management professional specializing in product strategy, business development, and technology innovation within the aviation and defense sectors. With a nearly 20 year career spanning aircraft design, advanced training technologies, autonomous systems, and aircraft maintenance, he has successfully led product portfolios ranging from aircraft equipment and autonomous mobile robots to high-fidelity flight simulators and immersive training solutions. At CAE, Wesley focuses on aligning emerging technologies with market opportunities to deliver customer value, improved safety and sustainable business growth. An advocate for the future of vertical flight, he also serves as President of the Montreal-Ottawa Chapter of the Vertical Flight Society, helping foster collaboration between industry, academia, and government to advance the future of vertical flight. 

Hao Zhou

Hao Zhou is a DCL candidate in air & space law who joined the Institute of Air and Space Law at McGill in 2025 from Shanghai, China. He conducts research in both air law and space law, with special interest in technical rule-making, air transport regulation, air carrier liability, and the law of unmanned aircraft systems.In 2022, Hao graduated from the Adv LLM programme of international air and space law of Leiden University, The Netherlands (with cum laude). It was then followed by an internship in 2023 with the East China Experimental Zone of Unmanned Aircraft Systems located in Shanghai, China. Hao possesses a long-lasting passion and comprehensive understanding of the interpretation and application of the Chicago Convention, and the technical rule-making functionalities of the ICAO. He is currently conducting his DCL research project on the rule-making functionalities of ICAO at McGill University, which is an attempt to examine the effectiveness of existing ICAO rule-making framework in the face of growing regulatory challenges in new domains.