🔖 The Powerhouse Behind It All Penelope Inc.
AIR FORCE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (AFIT) • B.ENG AEROSPACE ENGINEERING GRADUATE
7 Journals Under Peer Review
Beihang M.Sc Candidate Sept '26
AIAA JAIS Ad Hoc Reviewer
4 Public Benchmark Datasets

Aerospace Systems Engineer
& Digital Twin Researcher

Engineering robust, physics-informed intelligent systems for aircraft structural health monitoring (SHM), real-time diagnostics, and critical avionics cybersecurity infrastructure. Bridging regulatory airworthiness requirements with real-world hangar execution.

System Quantitative Baselines
Academic Standing
0.00/5.00
B.Eng Aerospace Engineering Graduate (Second Class Upper Honours).
Dornier 228 Twin Accuracy
0.00%
Dual-Input LSTM across 11 ATA-32 landing gear fault states running at 47ms latency.
Open Repository Footprint
0.00k Cycles
Global open data contributions spanning 27k Ignition, 18k B788, and 9.5k DO228 cycles.
RDE CFD Synthesis
0 Fields
1.48 GB spatiotemporal tensor matrices engineered via 4.3M parameter CVAE architectures.
CHINESE JOURNAL OF AERONAUTICS PHI-Twin B787 Landing Gear Prognostics
AIAA SCITECH COMPETITION PHI-CHAIN Permissioned Avionics Security
ELSEVIER RESS GEnx Ignition Remaining Useful Life Prognostics
AIAA JAIS Dornier 228 Certification-Compliant Multibody Twin
AIAA SCITECH FORUM 2027 Hydrogen-Air Rotary Detonation Engine Modeling
BEIHANG UNIVERSITY Smart Aviation Center M.Sc Trajectory
AIAA AD HOC SERVICE Verification of YOLOv8 Drogue Detection Algorithms
CHINESE JOURNAL OF AERONAUTICS PHI-Twin B787 Landing Gear Prognostics
AIAA SCITECH COMPETITION PHI-CHAIN Permissioned Avionics Security
ELSEVIER RESS GEnx Ignition Remaining Useful Life Prognostics
Primary Peer-Reviewed Track
Academic Engineering Contributions

Manuscripts & Papers Under Review

Chinese Journal of Aeronautics
Under Review
PHI-Twin: B787 Landing Gear Prognostics via Three-Layer Edge AI Architecture with SHAP Explainability
Lead Researcher. Cranfield University Collaboration. Air-gapped pipeline linking physics ODE solvers with a local LLM processing layer.
CNN-BiLSTMOllama 3.2ATA 32EASA AMC 20-42
AIAA SciTech 2027 Student Competition
Abstract Submitted
PHI-CHAIN: Blockchain-Secured Multi-Protocol Avionics Data Integrity Framework
Lead Researcher & Sole Author. Introduces Split-Payload Transponder Architecture to resolve the TCAS Paradox, executing 4-layer PIDT validation filters.
Hyperledger Fabric 2.5Split-PayloadRTCA DO-326A
Reliability Engineering & System Safety
Under Review
Gas Turbine Ignition System Digital Twin for B787-8 Health Monitoring
Lead Researcher & Sole Author. Built an R²=0.87 degradation regressor mapped directly via a real-time FastAPI interface to FlightGear telemetry.
LightGBMFastAPIGEnx SystemsKaggle Data
AIAA Journal of Aerospace Information Systems
Under Review
Certification-Compliant Digital Twin for Dornier 228 Landing Gear Systems
Lead Researcher & Sole Author. High-fidelity multibody physical reproduction checking structural landing compliance envelopes.
Simscape MultibodyCS-23.473PostgreSQL
AIAA SciTech Forum 2027
Abstract Submitted
Physics-Consistent Conditional VAE for Spatiotemporal Augmentation of RDE CFD Data
Lead Researcher. Documented a significant 4x Chapman-Jouguet overestimation error found in traditional velocity equations within RDE literature.
OpenFOAM v2406CVAEHuggingFace
Elsevier MSSP
Under Review
Gas Turbine LPT & HPT Digital Twin Health Monitoring System
Lab-scale predictive maintenance system for the AGTF30 engine. A 13-sensor bus feeds a CNN-BiLSTM-Attention architecture classifying micro-fractures.
AGTF30CNN-BiLSTM-AttentionFlightGear
Elsevier Aerospace Science and Technology (Q1)
Submitted
PHI-DRONE: The Digital Twin Reconnaissance Hub
Simulating UAV Vision and Flight in a Unified Pipeline. Co-designed with Ibrahim Tumsa Usman (AFIT). Integrates ArduPilot SITL, FlightGear, and YOLOv8.
ArduPilot SITLYOLOv8MAVLinkFlightGear
Comprehensive Stack
Exploded Breakdown

Technical Competencies

Aerospace & Aviation

Digital Twin Development

End-to-end construction of physics-grounded virtual replicas of aviation systems (gas turbines, landing gear) enabling real-time monitoring and fault prediction via ODE-based dynamics simulation.

Tools & Evidence:
SimscapeFastAPIFlightGearPyVista
Aerospace & Aviation

Prognostics & Health Mgmt

Data-driven and physics-informed approaches to predicting equipment degradation, RUL estimation, and classifying multi-class aviation failure modes before failure occurs.

Tools & Evidence:
CNN-BiLSTMLightGBMCS-231,027-sensor HUMS
Aerospace & Aviation

Aircraft MRO Optimization

Applying AI and digital twins to reduce downtime, predict wear, and streamline maintenance workflows. Cost-of-downtime modeling and DOC analysis mapped directly to maintenance action pipelines.

Tools & Evidence:
PostgreSQLBeihang M.Sc FocusDOC Analysis
Aerospace & Aviation

Rotary Detonation Engines

Computational investigation of RDE flow physics, stoichiometric and off-stoichiometric CJ velocity analysis, and spatiotemporal CFD field augmentation using deep generative models.

Tools & Evidence:
OpenFOAM v2406CVAEHuggingFace Dataset
Aerospace & Aviation

Computational Fluid Dynamics

Numerical simulation of compressible reacting flows for advanced propulsion. OpenFOAM case setup, meshing, solver configuration, and validation against analytical correlations.

Tools & Evidence:
OpenFOAMParaViewWSL2
Aerospace & Aviation

Airworthiness Compliance

Designing aircraft systems against EASA CS-23 requirements. CS-23.473 landing load case compliance analysis, fault tolerance mapping, and structural load validation.

Tools & Evidence:
Simscape MultibodyCS-23.473FAR
AI & Machine Learning

Physics-Informed ML

Embedding physical laws and ODE constraints into ML models to ensure predictions are plausible. Designing Physics-Informed Digital Twin Validators (PIDT) for fault physics modeling.

Tools & Evidence:
PyTorchMATLAB ODEPIDT Validator
AI & Machine Learning

Deep Learning (Time-Series)

Hybrid deep architectures for sequential, multi-channel time-series data. Dual-input LSTMs, CNN-BiLSTM with Attention mechanisms optimized for 47ms real-time inference latency.

Tools & Evidence:
TensorFlowKerasCNN-BiLSTM
AI & Machine Learning

Generative AI (CVAE)

Designing Conditional Variational Autoencoders for structured, physics-constrained synthetic data generation. KL divergence regularization and spatiotemporal field reconstruction.

Tools & Evidence:
PyTorchCVAE (4.3M params)Latent Space
AI & Machine Learning

Synthetic Data Generation

Creating large-scale, valid synthetic datasets for ML training in data-scarce domains via MATLAB physics simulators and generative models. Published 27k-sample & 72-field open datasets.

Tools & Evidence:
HuggingFaceKaggleOpenFOAM
AI & Machine Learning

Gradient Boosting

Applying gradient boosting ensemble methods for tabular aerospace fault classification. Feature importance analysis, serialization, and FastAPI deployment for interpretability.

Tools & Evidence:
LightGBMScikit-learnPandas
AI & Machine Learning

ONNX Model Deployment

Exporting, optimizing, and deploying ML models in ONNX format for cross-platform, low-latency offline inference environments (e.g., Aho-Corasick + ONNX semantic detection).

Tools & Evidence:
ONNX RuntimeHuggingFaceRust (ort)
Blockchain & Security

Aviation Cybersecurity

Securing aviation datalinks (ADS-B, ACARS, CPDLC) via cryptographic protocols and blockchain architectures against spoofing and replay attacks. Resolving the TCAS Paradox.

Tools & Evidence:
Split-PayloadPIDTAIAA SciTech
Blockchain & Security

Hyperledger Fabric

Deploying enterprise-grade permissioned blockchain networks for distributed trust. Certificate Authority management, chaincode development, and multi-org topology design.

Tools & Evidence:
Fabric 2.5Docker ComposeNode.js
Blockchain & Security

Cryptographic Protocol Design

Ed25519 digital signature implementation and Shamir Secret Sharing (GF(2⁸), 2-of-3 threshold) for secure key distribution in safety-critical aviation nodes.

Tools & Evidence:
Ed25519GF(2⁸)Python Crypto
Software Development

Rust / Tauri (Desktop)

Building high-performance, memory-safe cross-platform apps using Rust and Tauri v2. Offline whisper-rs STT integration, SQLite orchestration, and local system bindings.

Tools & Evidence:
Rust 1.96Tauri v2whisper-rs
Software Development

Flutter / Dart (Mobile)

Cross-platform mobile apps targeting Android with real-time WebRTC features, offline asset management, state management, and Firebase/PocketBase cloud integration.

Tools & Evidence:
Flutter 3.4DartFirebaseLiveKit
Software Development

Next.js / Full-Stack

Production-grade web apps via Next.js App Router and PocketBase. Real-time multi-channel chat, RBAC, chunked audio pipelines, and seamless cloud deployments.

Tools & Evidence:
Next.js 15TypeScriptTailwindVercel
Software Development

FastAPI (Microservices)

Lightweight Python REST API microservices for wrapping ML inference engines, managing Pydantic schemas, and exposing digital twin models as queryable async endpoints.

Tools & Evidence:
FastAPIUvicornPydantic
Software Development

WebRTC / LiveKit

Integrating real-time audio/video communication via LiveKit Cloud. Broadcast/interactive meeting architectures, token generation, and native SDK integration.

Tools & Evidence:
LiveKit CloudWebRTCMediaRecorder
Software Development

CI/CD & GitHub Actions

Automating build, test, and deployment pipelines. Workflow YAML authoring, Android APK automated builds, keystore signing, and Vercel/Fly.io continuous deployments.

Tools & Evidence:
GitHub ActionsDockerGradle
Research & Publishing

Technical Paper Writing

Authoring peer-reviewed manuscripts for top aerospace journals (AIAA, IEEE, Elsevier). Full lifecycle from literature review to response-to-reviewer rebuttal strategies.

Tools & Evidence:
AIAAElsevier RESSIEEE Access
Research & Publishing

Research Dataset Curation

Preparing, documenting, and publishing open-access datasets with persistent DOIs. Structuring metadata, ensuring versioning, and linking open science to published papers.

Tools & Evidence:
HuggingFaceKaggleDOI Mapping
Research & Publishing

AIAA Peer Review

Critical evaluation of submitted manuscripts for technical accuracy, methodological rigor, and originality on behalf of journal editors (AIAA JAIS).

Tools & Evidence:
AIAA JAISCritical Evaluation
Research & Publishing

LaTeX Typesetting

Professional scientific typesetting using domain-specific class files (AIAA, IEEE, elsarticle). Mathematical arrays, TikZ graphics, and BibTeX bibliography management.

Tools & Evidence:
LaTeXOverleafBibTeXTikZ
Enterprise & Deep-Tech Powerhouse

Behind the Architecture: Penelope Inc.

Penelope Inc. is the advanced aerospace software and digital twin incubator powering next-generation aviation telemetry frameworks. Operating at the intersection of physics-informed machine learning, resilient edge computing, and zero-leakage security, we build the systems that safeguard tomorrow's aerospace infrastructure.

Mohammed Bello Sani

Mohammed Bello Sani

Founder, CEO & Chief Technologist

PHI-Twin Ecosystem

Real-time edge diagnostics bridging multi-channel sensor buses with local physics solvers.

PHI-Chain Architecture

Permissioned blockchain frameworks resolving the TCAS Paradox and securing aircraft datalinks.

Autonomous Edge Inference

Ultra-low-latency ONNX/Rust pipelines ensuring flight-critical safety without cloud dependency.