Sherrill Lingel

Biography

Sherrill Lingel is a senior engineer at the RAND Corporation and manager of the Technology and Applied Sciences Group at RAND. She is also a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Lingel conducts research on intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) and remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) issues for the Air Force under RAND Project AIR FORCE's Force Modernization and Employment Program. Her work has supported the improvement of integration of ISR and strike command and control processes for Headquarters Air Force; evaluated RPA basing options for Pacific Air Forces; and examined sensor upgrades for Air Force RPAs for Air Combat Command and Pacific Air Forces.

Lingel's work at RAND has included examining the tasking and employing of ISR assets for a range of conflicts; modeling and analysis related to aircraft survivability; and looking at the methodology employed by the military for collateral damage estimation and mitigation. Lingel has also studied the man-portable air defense systems, or MANPAD, threat to commercial aviation. She has a background in modeling and simulation of air- and space-based systems and fluid dynamics.

Prior to joining RAND, she worked for the Norwegian Institute for Water Research in Oslo, Norway.

Lingel received her Ph.D. in civil and environmental engineering from the University of Washington.