People

ARCLab hosts graduate students, postdoctoral associates, and visiting scholars interested in pursuing research in our interest areas.

Faculty

Richard Linares

Rockwell International Career Development Professor

Lab Members

Alejandro Carrasco

S.M. Candidate

Research interests:
  • AI for Space Operations
  • Robotics and Teleoperation
  • Multimodal AI and Agents

Maya Harris

S.M. Candidate

Research interests:
  • Space Policy
  • Orbital Debris
  • Space Sustainability

Christian Hofmann

Postdoctoral Associate

Research interests:
  • Astrodynamics
  • Trajectory Design and Optimization
  • Mission Analysis

Amit Jain

Postdoctoral Associate

Research interests:
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Guidance, Navigation, and Control
  • Robotics

Giovanni Lavezzi

Research Scientist

Research interests:
  • Astrodynamics
  • Nonlinear and Optimal Control
  • Guidance, Navigation, and Control

Alex Posadas-Nava

S.M. Candidate

Research interests:
  • Robotics
  • Astrodynamics
  • Machine Learning

Victor Rodriguez-Fernandez

Research Affiliate

Research interests:
  • Deep Learning
  • Language Models
  • AI4Space

Tory Smith

Ph.D. Student

Research interests:
  • Space Domain Awareness
  • Space Debris Modeling

Liz Solera

Ph.D. Candidate

Research interests:
  • Space Domain Awareness
  • Space Surveillance
  • Behavior Understanding

Mariko Storey

S.M. Candidate

Research interests:
  • Space Mission Design
  • Autonomous Robotics
  • Astrodynamics

Mia Tian

S.M. Candidate

Research interests:
  • Space Weather
  • Space Debris

Enrico Zucchelli

Postdoctoral Associate

Research interests:
  • Space Domain Awarenesss
  • Machine Learning
  • Guidance, Navigation, and Control

Alumni

Adriana Mitchell

Ph.D '25

William Parker

Ph.D. '25

Marco Nedungadi

S.M. '25

Daniel Miller

Ph.D. '24

Thomas González Roberts

Ph.D. '24

Daniel Jang

Ph.D. '24

Miles Lifson

Ph.D. '24

Julia Briden

Ph.D. '24

Nikki Clark

S.M. '23

Julia Pasiecznik

S.M. '23

Celina Pasiecznik

S.M. '23