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1000042647Alexander "Xander" Will is a full-time doctoral lab lead/instructor at VCU & a sound tech for a local church. He was formerly a percussion instructor for The Consulting Arts since 2015; he will still jump in on sound tech when TCA needs it.

Xander's main musical genre is shoegaze. He started learning piano at 5, drums at 8, plays electric bass & guitar, and performs vocals.

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Education

Xander is an ABD Ph.D. student in Electrical/Computer Engineering at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), working on NASA Urban Air Mobility under the mentorship of Carl Elks, Ph.D. Besides presenting in Portugal (2023) at the DSN conference and in Chicago (2022) at the AIAA transportation conference, he has authored multiple peer-reviewed papers. His Curriculum vitae (CV) is on ResearchGate.

He graduated from the Maggie L. Walker Governor’s School (MLWGS) in Richmond, Virginia, after receiving scholarships from the Hanover County Council and Mechanicsville Elementary School PTA in 2017. Went to Nationals with Mechanicsville Tech Dragons FRC #422 in 2016.