Ashish Tewari is a Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He specializes in Flight Mechanics and Control, and is the single author of five previous books, including Aeroservoelasticity – Modeling and Control  (Birkhäuser, Boston, 2015) and Advanced Control of Aircraft, Spacecraft, and Rockets (Wiley, Chichester, 2011). He is also the author of several research papers in aircraft and spacecraft dynamics and control systems. He is an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), and a Senior Member of the Institution of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Prof. Tewari holds Ph.D.  and M.S. degrees in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla, and a B.Tech. degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.