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About
Mark Groden is the founder and CEO of Skyryse, the Los Angeles-area aviation company building SkyOS, a flight operating system that replaces traditional rotorcraft controls with a fly-by-wire interface a pilot can operate by touch. He invented an unmanned aerial vehicle for the U.S. Air Force at sixteen and earned a Ph.D. in sensor data fusion from the University of Michigan before founding Skyryse in 2016 at age twenty-six. The company has demonstrated industry firsts including fully automated takeoff, hover and landing, as well as automated engine-out landing of a helicopter. Skyryse has raised more than $290 million from investors including Fidelity, Eclipse Ventures and Venrock.
Previous roles
- Doctoral researcher in sensor data fusion, University of Michigan
- Researcher on a U.S. Air Force-funded unmanned aerial vehicle project at Case Western Reserve University
Notable work
- Holds more than 60 patents in aerial-vehicle automation and founded Skyryse, whose SkyOS achieved automated helicopter takeoff, hover, landing, and engine-out landing using simplified flight controls.
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