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, Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Victor Rodriguez-Fernandez

Visiting Professor

Research interests:
  • Deep learning
  • Machine learning
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Time Series
  • Space & AI

Lab Members

Grant Appel

S.M. Candidate

Research interests:
  • Optimal Guidance and Controls
  • Autonomy
  • Astrodynamics

Julia Briden

Ph.D. Candidate

Research interests:
  • Autonomy
  • Entry, Descent, and Landing (EDL) Guidance
  • Atmospheric Density Modeling

Alejandro Cabrales Hernandez

Ph.D. Candidate

Research interests:
  • Astrodynamics
  • Nonlinear Control
  • Solar Sails
  • Rendezvous and proximity operations

Nicolette Clark

S.M. Candidate

Research interests:
  • Astrodynamics
  • Atmospheric Density Modeling

Axel Garcia

Ph.D. Candidate

Research interests:
  • Optimal and Robust GN&C
  • Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos
  • Proximity Operations
  • Satellite Engineering (Hardware and Software)

Daniel Jang

Ph.D. Candidate

Research interests:
  • Space Domain Awareness and Space Traffic Management
  • Space Debris Environment Modeling
  • Astrodynamics

Giovanni Lavezzi

Postdoctoral Associate

Research interests:
  • Astrodynamics
  • Nonlinear and optimal control
  • Guidance, Navigation and Control

Miles Lifson

Ph.D. Candidate

Research interests:
  • Space Traffic Management
  • Space Sustainability and Orbital Capacity
  • Space Policy

Pablo Machuca

Postdoctoral Associate

Research interests:
  • Astrodynamics
  • Guidance, Navigation and Control
  • Space Domain Awareness

Eduardo Maristany

S.M. Candidate

Research interests:
  • Space Traffic Management
  • Orbital Debris Mitigation
  • Space Economy

Daniel Miller

Ph.D. Candidate

Research interests:
  • Low-thrust Trajectory Optimization
  • Mission Formulation
  • Solar Sails

Adriana Mitchell

Ph.D. Candidate

Research interests:
  • Terrain Relative Navigation
  • Computer Vision
  • Machine Learning for Image Processing

William Parker

S.M. Candidate

Research interests:
  • Space Domain Awareness
  • Robotics
  • Computer Vision

Celina Pasiecznik

S.M. Candidate

Research interests:
  • Astrodynamics
  • Controls
  • Space Traffic Management

Julia Pasiecznik

S.M. Candidate

Research interests:
  • Astrodynamics
  • Controls
  • Space Situational Awareness and Space Traffic Management

Thomas G. Roberts

Ph.D. Candidate

Research interests:
  • Astrodynamics
  • Space Sustainability
  • Space Policy

Simone Servadio

Postdoctoral Associate

Research interests:
  • Astrodynamics
  • Navigation
  • Filtering

Peng Mun Siew

Research Scientist

Research interests:
  • Space Domain Awareness
  • Machine Learning
  • Atmospheric Modeling

Tory Smith

S.M. Candidate

Research interests:
  • Space Domain Awareness
  • Space Debris Modeling

Liz Solera

S.M. Candidate

Research interests:
  • Astrodynamics
  • Robotics
  • Machine Learning

Di Wu

Postdoctoral Associate

Research interests:
  • Astrodynamics
  • Space Capacity, Logistics, and Management
  • Interdisciplinary Advanced Concepts