Summary

Romanian-born aerospace engineer employed by the U.S. Navy at NAS Patuxent River who filed a cluster of patents - officially assigned to the Department of the Navy - describing technologies including a hybrid aerospace-underwater craft using inertial mass reduction, a room-temperature superconductor, a high-frequency gravitational wave generator, and a plasma compression fusion device. The Navy's own Chief Technology Officer for Naval Aviation made sworn declarations to the USPTO vouching for the patents' operability, citing concern about similar Chinese development. Three years of internal Navy testing costing $508,000 concluded in September 2019 that the 'Pais Effect' could not be proven. Pais subsequently transferred to Navy Strategic Systems Programs, then the Air Force, and currently works for the U.S. Space Force.

Roles

• -Aerospace Engineer, Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD)
• -Aerospace Engineer, U.S. Space Force (present)
• -Patent Inventor, U.S. Department of the Navy

Organizations

Education

• -B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University (1990)
• -M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University (1993)
• -Ph.D., Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Case Western Reserve University (1999) - NASA Graduate Student Research Fellow at NASA Glenn Research Center

Early Career

• -NASA Graduate Student Research Fellow at NASA Glenn (formerly Lewis) Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio, during doctoral studies
• -Aerospace engineer at Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems; filed Laser Augmented Turbojet Propulsion patent (US7080504B2, granted 2006)
• -Joined Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) at NAS Patuxent River, Maryland, as aerospace engineer