JAXA Aviation Symposium 2024

Carol Carroll is the deputy associate administrator for the Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD). She leads long-term strategic, portfolio, and budget planning and analysis for ARMD. Additionally, Carroll oversees mission directorate operations and organizational development. She has over 30 years of engineering and executive leadership experience at NASA and in the industry. She has served in a variety of engineering, flight and facility project management, and organizational leadership positions.Prior to joining ARMD, Carroll was the deputy center director at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California. At NASA Ames, Carroll also worked on projects for the Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel, the ISS Utilization Office, and the Science Mission Directorate. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Tech and completed the Senior Executive Fellows program at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.

Dylan Jones is the Executive Director of Boeing Research & Technology’s Global Technology organization in Japan consisting of a Manufacturing Technology Integration (MTI) group supporting the Asia region and a growing R&D team with focus on sustainability technologies including composites, robotics and SAF. His teams source, direct and accelerate strategic R&D collaborations working with governments, universities, research labs, local industry and technology consortiums in country. He is also responsible for Boeing Korea Engineering & Technology Center (BKETC) which is a research and development center based in Seoul, focused on AI, Software Engineering, Avionics, Electronics and Displays and Model Based Engineering. He is responsible for identification and incorporation of world class technologies from Korea and Japan with high impact to Boeing products and processes for competitive advantage as well as cost reduction. Prior to his current assignment in 2021, Dylan held several R&D leadership roles in Boeing Commercial Airplanes Product Development organization. He was responsible for implementing innovative and high value materials and fabrication technologies across the full lifecycle of the commercial airplane program & production system value chain. Since Dylan joined Boeing in 2006 as a structures analyst engineer on the 787 program, he’s held various engineering and management positions in major projects, full scale test, structural verification and certification as well as technology development leadership across 787, 737MAX & 777X programs. Dylan earned a B.S. in Astronautics from the University of Southern California and studied Finance at UC Berkeley.