Նաիրա Հովակիմյան (b. 1966)։ Գյուտարարություն և ինժեներություն։ control systems engineer, born in Yerevan. Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign holding 11 patents and 450+ publications in adaptive control theory, with her algorithms used in autonomous flight-safety systems for real aircraft. Naira Hovakimyan is an Armenian control theorist who holds the W. Grafton and Lillian B. Wilkins professorship of the Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the director of AVIATE Center at UIUC, funded through a NASA University Leadership Initiative. She was the inaugural director of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory during 2015–2017, associated with the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.