Irene Michelle Gregory is an American aerospace engineer whose research involves control theory and its applications in the control of aircraft.[1] In works with Naira Hovakimyan and others, she has pioneered the use of adaptive control techniques in this application, which combine the protection against uncertain data or modeling errors of robust control with the fast estimation provided by adaptive control.[2] She works as senior technologist for advanced control theory and applications[1] in the NASA Engineering & Safety Center at the Langley Research Center.[3]