Brandon Wild

AVIT 208: Aviation Safety

AVIT 313: Aviation Insurance

AVIT 405: Airline Operations and Management

AVIT 412: Aviation Safety Analysis

Flight Data Monitoring (FDM)

• National General Aviation Flight Information Database (NGAFID.org)
• Unmanned Aircraft Systems FDM Integration

PUBLICATIONS 

Books/Book Chapters/Book Articles 

Wild, B., Ullrich, G., and Guthridge, R. (2021). Introduction to Aviation Safety. Kendall Hunt Publishing Company.

Wild, B., Ullrich, G. (2015). Aviation Safety - The Basics. Bookboon.com.

Wild, B. (2013). Flight Safety Programs. In Aviation Safety: A Balanced Industry Approach (pp. 192 - 204). Delmar Cengage Learning. 

Refereed Journal Articles

Wilson N., Guthridge, R., Wild, B., Roesler, J., Kasowski, D., Terbest, A., Fettig, A., Geinert, N., Kraus, R. (2025). A Technical and Statistical Analysis of Unleaded Aviation Fuel (UL94) Adoption in a High-Volume Collegiate Aviation Environment. Journal of Aviation Technology and Engineering, 14(2), 6.

Guthridge, R., Wilson, N. D., & Wild, B. (2025). Unleaded Aviation Fuel: Assessing Stakeholder Perceptions and Preparing an Organization for Change. Journal of Aviation Technology and Engineering, 14(1), 4.

LaBella, A. P., Karns, J. A., Akhbardeh, F., Desell, T., Walton, A. J., Morgan, Z., Wild, B., & Dusenbury, M. (2022). Optimized flight safety event detection in the national general aviation flight information database. In Proceedings of the 37th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (pp. 1570-1579).

ElSaid, A., El Jamiy, F., Higgins, J., Wild, B., & Desell, T. (2018). Optimizing long short-term memory recurrent neural networks using ant colony optimization to predict turbine engine vibration. Applied Soft Computing, 73, 969-991.

ElSaid, A., Jamiy, F. E., Higgins, J., Wild, B., & Desell, T. (2018). Using ant colony optimization to optimize long short-term memory recurrent neural networks. In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (pp. 13-20). ACM.

Karboviak, K., Clachar, S., Desell, T., Dusenbury, M., Hedrick, W., Higgins, J., Walberg, J., & Wild, B. (2018). Classifying Aircraft Approach Type in the National General Aviation Flight Information Database. In International Conference on Computational Science (pp. 456-469). Springer, Cham.

ElSaid, A., Wild, B., Jamiy, F. E., Higgins, J., & Desell, T. (2017). Optimizing LSTM RNNs using ACO to predict turbine engine vibration. In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion (pp. 21-22). ACM.

ElSaid, A., Wild, B., Higgins, J., Desell, T. (2016). Using LSTM Recurrent Neural Networks to Predict Excess Vibration Events in Aircraft Engines. The IEEE International Conference on eScience. IEEE.

Desell, T., Clachar, S., Higgins, J., Wild, B. (2015). Evolving Deep Recurrent Neural Networks Using Ant Colony Optimization. The 15th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization.

Desell, T., Clachar, S., Higgins, J., Wild, B. (2014). Evolving Neural Network Weights for Time-Series Prediction of General Aviation Flight Data. Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN 2014).

Professional Presentations

Wild, B. (Presenter & Author), Dusenbury, M., FAA Flight Trainer Infoshare, "Proximity Events and the National General Aviation Flight Information Database," FAA / University Aviation Association, Costa Mesa, CA. (October 1, 2025).

Wild, B. (Presenter & Author), Dusenbury, M., FAA Flight Trainer Infoshare, "National General Aviation Flight Information Database Updates," FAA / University Aviation Association, Memphis, TN. (September 25, 2024).

Wild, B. (Presenter & Author), Guthridge, R. (Presenter & Author), UND Aerospace Fall Safety Seminar, "Elements of a Just Culture," UND Aerospace, Grand Forks, ND. (October 4, 2023).

Wild, B. (Presenter & Author), Dusenbury, M., FAA Flight Trainer Infoshare, "National General Aviation Flight Information Database," FAA / University Aviation Association, St. Petersburg, FL. (September 27, 2023).

Wild, B. (Presenter & Author), Dusenbury, M., FAA Flight Trainer Infoshare, "National General Aviation Flight Information Database," FAA, Colorado Springs, CO. (October 4, 2022).

Higgins, J., Lovelace, K., Wild, B., UND Aerospace Aviation Speaker Series, "Navigating Airline Careers During Downturns and Uncertainty," University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND (via Zoom). (March 27, 2020).

Wild, B., Dusenbury, M., UAA Annual Conference, "Collegiate Aviation Flight Data Monitoring," University Aviation Association, Memphis, TN. (October 3, 2019).

Wild, B. (Presenter & Author), Dusenbury, M., FAA Flight Trainer Infoshare, "National General Aviation Flight Information Database," FAA, Memphis, TN. (October 2, 2019).

Dusenbury, M. (Presenter & Author), Wild, B (Presenter & Author), FAA Infoshare, "NGAFID Updates," Dallas, TX. (April 18, 2019)

Wild, B. (Presenter & Author), University of Southern California, "Flight Data Monitoring in General Aviation," Los Angeles, CA (August, 8-9, 2018).

Wild, B. (Panelist), GE Aviation Waypoint, "Driving Change in an SMS with Data", Dallas, TX. (February 27, 2018).

Wild, B. (Panelist), GE Aviation Waypoint, "How is Gen Z Getting Ready for Aviation Data?," Dallas, TX. (February 26, 2018).

Wild, B. (Presenter & Author), FAA Infoshare, "GAARD / NGAFID Update," FAA, Philadelphia, PA. (March 17, 2016).

Wild, B. (Presenter & Author), FAA Infoshare, "National General Aviation Flight Information Database Update," Federal Aviation Administration, Dallas, TX. (September 17, 2015).

Wild, B. (Presenter & Author), Walberg, J. (Presenter & Author), FAA Infoshare, "FOQA/FDM Findings and Research Initiatives," FAA, Pittsburgh, PA. (April 15, 2015).

Wild, B. (Presenter & Author), FAA Infoshare, "National General Aviation Flight Information Database (NGAFID)," Federal Aviation Administration, Baltimore, MD. (September 25, 2014).

Wild, B. (Presenter & Author), UND Aerospace Spring Safety Seminar, "What is Flight Data Monitoring?," UND Aerospace, Grand Forks, ND. (April 2, 2014).

Wild, B. (Presenter & Author), Safety Short, "Aviation Safety Action Programs (ASAP)," University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND. (October 17, 2013).

Higgins, J. (Presenter & Author), Wild, B. (Presenter & Author), Desell, T. (Presenter & Author), InfoShare, "FOQA in University Flight Operations," Federal Aviation Administration, Denver, CO. (March 20, 2013).

Wild, B. (Presenter & Author), Walmart Aviation Safety Standdown, "Flight Operational Quality Assurance (FOQA)," Walmart, Bentonville, AR. (January 30, 2013).

Ph.D., Educational Foundations and Research, University of North Dakota

M.B.A., Aviation, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

B.S., Aerospace Studies, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Professor, UND, 2025 - Present

Instructor - Aviation Safety, University of Southern California, 2024 - Present

Associate Professor, UND, 2018 - 2025

Assistant Professor, UND, 2012 - 2018

Manager – Flight Operational Quality Assurance (FOQA), Delta Air Lines / Northwest Airlines, 2004 – 2012

Adjunct Instructor, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, 2005 - 2012

Aviation Underwriter, United States Aircraft Insurance Group, 2002 - 2004

Flight Operational Quality Assurance (FOQA) Analyst, United Parcel Service (UPS) Airlines, 2000-2002.

Flight Safety Analyst, United Airlines, 1997-2000