Publications

// research output · 9 entries

Peer-reviewed papers, preprints, and research essays on safe autonomy for aerospace systems. The full record lives on my Google Scholar profile.

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Conference 2026

Fine-Tuning Large Language Models for Cooperative Tactical Deconfliction of Small Unmanned Aerial Systems

Iman Sharifi, Alex Zongo, Peng Wei

↳ 3rd Workshop on Multi-Agent Embodied Intelligent Systems Meet Agentic-AI era: Opportunities, Challenges and Futures (MEIS@CVPR 2026)

This paper presents a simulation-to-language data generation pipeline using BlueSky ATM for fine-tuning Large Language Models on cooperative tactical deconfliction of small UAS, achieving improved decision accuracy and reduced ...

Large Language ModelsAir Traffic ControlMulti-Agent

Paper Preprint Poster

Conference 2026

eVTOL Aircraft Energy Consumption Estimation with Conflict Resolution in High-Density Airspaces

Alex Zongo, Peng Wei

↳ Integrated Communications Navigation, and Surveillance (ICNS) Conference

This paper characterizes electric Vertical Take-off and Landing (eVTOL) aircraft energy consumption under an autonomous tactical conflict resolution framework (the Modified Voltage Potential or MVP) in an unstructured high-dens...

Advanced Air MobilitySeparation Assurance

Paper Preprint Slides

Conference 2025

Towards Intelligent Fault-Tolerant Attitude Flight Control of Fixed-Wing Aircraft

Alex B. Zongo, Qing Li

↳ Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Springer Nature, International Conference in Navigation Guidance and Control (ICGNC)

This paper was submitted as part of my master thesis. It delves into the use of Reinforcement Learning to enhance fault-tolerance in fixed-wing aircraft attitude flight control.

Flight ControlReinforcement LearningRobustness & Safety

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// accepted · to appear

Accepted To appear · 2027

Regional Air Mobility Operational Energy Assessment Using A Full-Envelope eVTOL Power Model

Zongo, A., Ochoa, S., Sun, L., Nguyen, A., Tran, S., and Wei, P.

↳ AIAA SciTech 2027

Operational energy assessment for regional air mobility using a full-envelope eVTOL power model.

Advanced Air MobilityEnergy Estimation

Accepted To appear · 2026

Large Language Model Guided Reinforcement Learning for Maritime Ship Collision Avoidance

Pang, Y., Aziz, A., Zongo, A., Wei, P., and Crandall, K.

↳ OCEANS 2026 IEEE

Large language model guidance for reinforcement learning in maritime ship collision avoidance.

Reinforcement LearningLarge Language ModelsMaritime Autonomy

Accepted To appear · 2027

Air Traffic Control Using Large Language Models: Prompt Engineering, Architecture, and Evaluation

Ghazanfari, M., Casanova, M., Kam, J., Zongo, A., Wei, P., Darrell, T., and Bayen, A.

↳ AIAA SciTech 2027

Evaluates how prompting and dialogue history affect the realism of LLM-generated air traffic control communications.

Large Language ModelsAir Traffic Control

Preprint

Accepted To appear · 2026

Robust Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Small UAS Separation Assurance under GPS Degradation and Spoofing

Alex Zongo, Filippos Fotiadis, Ufuk Topcu, Peng Wei

↳ IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) 2026

This paper addresses real-time separation assurance and tactical deconfliction mechanisms of small Unmanned Aerial Systems via Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning under GPS degradation and Spoofing.

Multi-AgentReinforcement LearningSeparation AssuranceRobustness & Safety

Preprint Poster

Accepted To appear · 2026

Runtime Safety Filtering for Learned Small UAS Separation Policies under GNSS Degradation

Alex Zongo, Peng Wei

↳ Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC) 2026

Compares action and observation filtering for learned separation policies under GNSS degradation; observation filtering improves safety in the reported experiments.

Separation AssuranceReinforcement LearningRobustness & Safety

Preprint

// research essays

Essay 2025

Aircraft Traffic Control: Managing Order in a Crowded Sky

Alex Zongo

↳ Scholarly blog post (Zenodo archived)

A conceptual overview of Air Traffic Control as a predictive, safety-critical control system.

Air Traffic Control