Taimur Ali Shams was born in 1979 in Lahore, Pakistan. He received a B.E. in aerospace engineering from the National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan, and an M.S. (fluid dynamics) from Air University, Islamabad, Pakistan. His industrial experience includes two years of managing at the organizational level and five years in intermediate level aircraft maintenance. He has vast experience of carrying out research and development projects concerning modifications of aircraft. Currently, he is a PhD candidate at the College of Aeronautical Engineering, NUST, Islamabad, Pakistan and is working on the flight instabilities of fixed-wing micro aerial vehicles. His research interests include experimental aerodynamics, wind-tunnel testing, flight dynamics, 6DOF modeling and evaluation of flight test data.