Dr. Jay Nagy

Biography

Jay Nagy is a professor of practice at the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he joined the faculty in fall 2025. With a 30-year career in the aerospace industry, Professor Nagy is an industry expert in the application of modern system safety methodologies to complex design and operational challenges. His research area is multidisciplinary accident investigations, with a primary focus on joint cognitive systems. At Georgia Tech, he teaches in the general area of flight controls and associated subjects. Professor Nagy began his career at Lockheed Martin as an airframe structures test flight engineer. He later served as Technical Director at Lufthansa Technik, where he built and managed a new airframe overhaul test base for commercial jet airplanes. In 2004, he relocated to Australia, initially working as a Principal Engineer at Boeing, followed by a decade-long assignment on the RAAF KC-30A aircraft program. In 2018, he accepted a full-time position at Airbus as a Senior Expert, responsible for developing intelligent system architectures for future designs. After returning to Australia, he worked as a consulting engineer, primarily engaged in the system safety domain. Professor Nagy is an active member of the International Society of Air Safety Investigators (ISASI) and the Australian Aviation Psychology Association (AAvPA).

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