William S. Saric has been Professor of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University since January 2005. He received his PhD in Mechanics from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1968 and has held appointments at Sandia Laboratories (Atomic and Fluid Physics, 1963-1966, 1968-1975), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Engineering Science and Mechanics, 1975-1984), Tohoku University, Japan (Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1991-1992), and Arizona State University (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, 1984-2005).

He is a registered Professional Engineer in Virginia and was an Aerospace Engineering Evaluator for ABET.

He is a Fellow of AIAA, APS, and ASME. He received the AIAA Fluid Dynamics Award in 2003, the G.I. Taylor Medal from SES in 1993, the Scientific Achievement Award from AGARD (NATO) in 1996, and the Alumni Research Award from V.P.I.&S.U in 1984. Most recently he was elected at the National Academy of Engineering for "contributions to the fundamental understanding and control of shear-flow and boundary-layer transition".

He has established three major wind tunnel research facilities at ASU and is presently re-establishing the wind tunnels and a flight research center at Texas A&M University.

Most recently, he has conducted theoretical, computational, experimental, and flight research on stability,transition, and control of two-dimensional and three-dimensional boundary layers for micro air vehicles, subsonic aircraft, supersonic aircraft and reentry vehicle applications.

He has five invited articles in the Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics. He is presently Chairman of the Transition Study Group of AIAA, has served six years on the AGARD (NATO) Fluid Dynamics Panel, has been Chairman of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division, and has been Associate Editor of Physics of Fluids, Applied Mechanics Reviews,Journal of Fluids Engineering, and Journal of Applied Mechanics.