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Kerri Cahoy
Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Co-Director, Small Satellite Center
Bisplinghoff Faculty Fellow
Contact
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Room 37-367
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139
Administrative Assistant
Elizabeth Zotos
zotos [at] mit.edu
Financial Officer
Kim Ngan Le
ngan_le [at] mit.edu
Academic Degrees
2008, Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, Stanford University; 2002, M.S. Electrical Engineering, Stanford University; 2000, B.S. Electrical Engineering, Cornell University
Honors and Awards
MIT Committed to Caring Award, 2020-2021; AIAA Associate Fellow, 2018; NASA New Investigator in Earth Sciences Award, 2014; MIT Outstanding UROP Mentor Award, 2012-2013
Society Memberships
AIAA, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), American Astronomical Society, National Society for Optics and Photonics
Positions Held at MIT
Associate Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics, July 2016 — Present; Assistant Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics, July 2011 — June 2016; Research Staff, Earth and Planetary Sciences and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, June 2010 — July 2011
Positions Held outside MIT
NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow, NASA Ames Research Center, Exoplanets, October 2008 – June 2010; Senior RF Payload Engineer and Communications Scientist, Space Systems Loral, August 2006 – October 2008; NASA Educational Associate, January 2006 – August 2006; NASA Ames Research Center, Intelligent Robotics Group, Graduate Student Researcher; Stanford University Electrical Engineering, June 2002 – January 2006
Specialization and Research Interests
Wavefront control systems for exoplanet exploration and free-space, laser communication, Spacecraft radio systems for space weather and planetary atmospheric sensing, nanosatellites (CubeSats)
Teaching Interests
Spacecraft engineering, optical and radio remote sensing
Advising Philosophy Statement
Lab/Research Group Affiliation