Editorial Team
Senior Student Executive Editor
Sangwoo Kim, CFII
Active in collegiate aviation training and dispatch environments. Experience includes commercial pilot certification, flight procedures, and safety reporting workflows. Industry exposure spans airport operations, aviation management coursework, and air carrier regulatory frameworks. Technical skills include flight planning, CRM, aircraft systems knowledge, and Microsoft Office for operational documentation. Completed military service with dispatcher responsibilities in court administration, reinforcing procedural discipline and communication precision.
Student Executive Reviewers
Ryota Mizuno CFI
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The editorial board is being formed prior to first issue in Fall 2026.
Founding-Managing Editor
Eric Savage, PhD, CM, CFI
Clinical Assistant Professor of Flight
Purdue University
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=4Scy39QAAAAJ&hl=en
BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Eric Savage serves as Founding-Managing Editor of VECTOR - The International Journal of Aviation Intelligence and LINK - The International Journal of Aviation Modeling & Simulation. He is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Flight in the School of Aviation and Transportation Technology at Purdue University's Polytechnic Institute.
Dr. Savage's academic and professional background integrates flight instruction, aviation leadership, human factors, and flight simulation research. His research interests focus on cognitive workload, aviation neuroergonomics, human performance in complex aviation systems, and the role of advanced simulation technologies in pilot training and decision-making.
Prior to his academic career, Dr. Savage worked in aviation and humand factors-related environments where he developed a long-standing interest in how pilots interact with complex systems under conditions of workload and time pressure. His current scholarly work explores the intersection of simulation fidelity, physiologial measurement, and adaptive trainining environments in aviation.
Through his editorial leadership, Dr. Savage seeks to provide platforms that support interdisciplinary research and student scholarship in emerging areas of aviation intelligence, modeling, simulation, and human performance
