PEOPLE


Faculty

Dr. Donghoon Kim
Director
(Fall 2019 - Present)


Research Interests:

  • Autonomous System Design & Development
  • Guidance, Navigation, and (Fault-tolerant) Control
  • Failure Detection, Isolation, and Reconfiguration
  • Celestial Mechanics
  • Simultaneous Localization and Mapping
  • Space Robotics
  • Artificial Intelligence Applications

Active Researchers

Postgraduate Researchers

Daegyun Choi
Postdoc (Fall 2023 - Present)


Research Interests:

  • Failure Detection and Diagnosis
  • Spacecraft Dynamics and Control
Gargi Das
Postdoc (Spring 2025 - Present)


Research Interests:

  • Spacecraft Dynamics and Control
  • Space Robotics

Graduate Researchers

Anirudh Chhabra
PhD (Fall 2019 - Present)


Research Interests:

  • Space Robotics
  • Autonomous System Control
Sathya Karthikeyan
MS (Spring 2022 - Present)


Research Interests:

  • Spacecraft Dynamics and Control
  • Autonomous Systems
Shurendher Kumar
MS (Spring 2022 - Present)


Research Interests:

  • Intelligent Systems Control
  • Autonomous Robotics
Josh Jones
MEng (Fall 2024 - Present)


Research Interests:

  • Controls and Automation
  • Spacecraft Dynamics
Aaron Borger
PhD (Fall 2024 - Present)


Research Interests:

  • Intelligent Space Robotics
  • Multi-Agent Collaboration
Sarah Hudson
PhD (Fall 2024 - Present)


Research Interests:

  • Space Robotics
  • Autonomous System Control
Diego Quevedo
PhD (Fall 2024 - Present)


Research Interests:

  • Space Robotics
  • Dynamics and Controls
Alhim Vera Gonzalez
MEng (Fall 2024 - Present)


Research Interests:

  • Advanced Perception, Reasoning, and Memory in AI Systems
  • Next-Generation Multimodal Algorithms for Intelligent Agents

Undergraduate Researchers

N/A

Alumni

Sungwook Yang
PhD (Fall 2019)


Current Role: Ph.D. Aerospace Engineering @ Mississippi State University

Prithev Govindasamy
MEng (Fall 2020 - Spring 2021)


Current Role: Assistant System Engineer @ Tata Consultancy Services for Ford Motor Company

Kaushik Palani
MEng (Spring 2021 - Summer 2022)


Current Role: AI Engineer I @ Honeywell

Samson Griffin
BS (Summer 2021 - Summer 2022)


Current Role: Aerospace Senior @ University of Cincinnati

Jashwanth Rao Venepally
MEng (Fall 2020 - Fall 2022)


Current Role: Lead Embedded Software Engineer @ Wabtech Corporation

Mukhtar Ahmed
MS (Spring 2022 - Spring 2023)


Current Role: MS Aerospace Engineering @ University of Cincinnati

Anh Nguyen
Undergraduate Researcher
(Summer 2022 - Spring 2023)


Current Role: Master of Computing (w/ Specialization in AI) @ National University of Singapore

Jarod Quinlisk
MEng (Fall 2022 - Spring 2023)


Current Role: CFD Engineer @ Belcan

Daegyun Choi
PhD (Fall 2019 - Summer 2023)


Current Role: Postdoctoral Researcher @ IASRL, University of Cincinnati

Shyam Rauniyar
MS (Fall 2020 - Fall 2023)


Current Role: Aerospace Control Systems Engineer @ Angel Aerial Systems

Dmitry Mohammad Manasreh
PhD (Fall 2020 - Fall 2023)


Current Role: Senior Research Associate @ CSSRI, University of Cincinnati

Sameer Bhalla
MS (Spring 2022 - Spring 2024)


Current Role: Controls Engineer @ Gimbal Innovations Inc.

Yuxin Song
BS (Fall 2023 - Spring 2024)


Current Role: To be updated.

Ruonan Yang
BS (Fall 2023 - Spring 2024)


Current Role: To be updated.

Huu Tri Nguyen
BS (Spring 2021 - Spring 2024)


Current Role: Ph.D. Aerospace Engineering, AI Bio Lab @ University of Cincinnati.

Yashvi Srivastava
BS (Fall 2021 - Spring 2024)


Current Role: SEO Engineer @ Helium SEO.

Steven Kraine
BS (Spring 2023 - Spring 2024)


Current Role: Research Systems Test, Modeling, and Validation Engineer @ Ford Motor Company.

James Caleb Gilger
BS (Spring 2023 - Spring 2024)


Current Role: To be updated.

Kuan Wen
MEng (Spring 2024 - Summer 2024)


Current Role: To be updated.

Jakob Vilinsky
BS (Spring 2024 - Summer 2024)


Current Role: To be updated.

Leah Story
BS (Fall 2023 - Summer 2024)


Current Role: To be updated.

Kaloyan Armoutliev
BS (Spring 2024 - Fall 2024)


Current Role: To be updated.

Shivam Sinay Kharangate
BS (Fall 2024 - Fall 2024)


Current Role: To be updated.

Nitin Vasudevan
BS (Spring 2024 - Fall 2024)


Current Role: To be updated.