Dr. Yogananda Jeppu is a Fellow at Honeywell Aerospace. He has over 35 years of experience in the field of Control System Design and Implementation, Simulation of Aerospace Systems, Verification and Validation of safety critical systems. He is a BE in Electronics and Communication, from Mangalore University, and a Post Graduate in Missile Guidance and Controls from Pune University. He has a PhD in Certification of Safety Critical Control Systems using Model Based Techniques from IIT Bombay. He has several publications on Formal Methods, Randomized Testing, Orthogonal Array Testing, Model Based Systems Engineering, Missile Guidance and Control and Teaching. He has been awarded US patents for innovations in UAV and Radar. He has been awarded for his contributions to the Indian LCA Flight Controls program and the Indian Integrated Guided Missiles Program. He is the recipient of the 2023 INCOSE Systems Engineering Influencer Award – for significant contributions and community outreach in adoption of systems modeling and model-based systems engineering in industry and academia in India. He has a mention in the Limca book of Records for his hobby – philately. He started his career in 1987, working on Missiles and Indian LCA program with Defense R&D Organization.