Jay Nagy is a professor of the practice in the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He joined the faculty in the fall of 2025, after a 30-year career in the aerospace industry. Prof. 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. Prof. Nagy started his career at Lockheed Martin International as an airframe structures and test flight engineer. A few years later, as Technical Director at Lufthansa Technik, he built and managed a new airframe overhaul and test base for commercial jet airplanes. In 2004, Prof. Nagy relocated his family to Australia where he initially worked as a Principal Engineer at Boeing, followed by a decade-long assignment to 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 design. Upon returning to Australia, he worked as a consulting engineer, primarily engaged in the system safety domain. Prof. Nagy is an active member of the International Society of Air Safety Investigators (ISASI) and the Australian Aviation Psychology Association (AAvPA).