Aaron Hoskins received his B.S. in aerospace engineering and his M.S. in aerospace engineering from the University of Maryland. He received his Ph.D. in industrial engineering from Mississippi State University. He worked at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in the Naval Center for Space Technology (NCST) for ten years before leaving to join academia. He was a tenured professor at California State University, Fresno before joining the faculty at the University of Central Florida.