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

Current Researchers

Dr. Daegyun Choi
Postdoctoral Researcher
(Fall 2023 - Present)

Research Interests:

  • Failure Detection and Diagnosis
  • Spacecraft Dynamics and Control
Dr. Gargi Das
Postdoctoral Researcher
(Spring 2025 - Present)

Research Interests:

  • Spacecraft Dynamics and Control
  • Space Robotics
Sarah Hudson
PhD Student
(Fall 2024 - Present)

Research Interests:

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

Research Interests:

  • Space Robotics
  • Dynamics and Controls
Magnus Severing
PhD Student
(Fall 2025 - Present)

Research Interests:

  • Hardware-in-the-loop Simulation
  • Space Robotics
Zhenyu Shi
PhD Student
(Fall 2024 - Present)

Research Interests:

  • Resilient Architecture Design
  • Autonomous Systems
Shurendher Sampathkumar
MS Student
(Spring 2022 - Present)

Research Interests:

  • Intelligent Systems Control
  • Autonomous Robotics
Ashmond Tetteh
MS Student
(Summer 2025 - Present)

Research Interests:

  • Spacecraft Dynamics and Control
  • Optimization
Joseph Flynn
MS Student
(Summer 2025 - Present)

Research Interests:

  • Autonomous Robots
  • Spacecraft Systems and Dynamics
Alhim Vera Gonzalez
MEng Student
(Fall 2024 - Present)

Research Interests:

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

Researchers on Leave

Aaron Borger
PhD Student
(Fall 2024 - Summer 2025)

Current Role: CEO @ Orbital Robotics

Sathya Karthikeyan
MS Student
(Spring 2022 - Spring 2025)

Current Role: To be updated.

Former Members (Alumni)

Sungwook Yang
PhD
(Fall 2019)

Current Role: Ph.D. Student @ Mississippi State University

Prithev Govindasamy
MEng
(Fall 2020 - Spring 2021)

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

Kaushik Palani
MEng
(Spring 2021 - Summer 2022)

Current Role: AI Engineer @ GOLGIX

Samson Griffin
BS
(Summer 2021 - Summer 2022)

Current Role: Aerospace Engineer @ Air Force Research Laboratory

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 Student @ University of Cincinnati

Anh Nguyen
BS
(Summer 2022 - Spring 2023)

Current Role: AI Intern @ Bifrost AI

Jarod Quinlisk
MEng
(Fall 2022 - Spring 2023)

Current Role: Engineer @ Belcan

Daegyun Choi
PhD
(Fall 2019 - Summer 2023)

Current Role: Postdoctoral Researcher @ University of Cincinnati

Shyam Rauniyar
MS
(Fall 2020 - Fall 2023)

Current Role: Control Systems Engineer @ Angel Aerial Systems

Dmitry Mohammad Manasreh
PhD
(Fall 2020 - Fall 2023)

Current Role: Senior Research Associate @ University of Cincinnati

Sameer Bhalla
MS
(Spring 2022 - Spring 2024)

Current Role: Control Software 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: PhD Student @ 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: To be updated.

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: UG Student @ University of Cincinnati

Shivam Sinay Kharangate
BS
(Fall 2024 - Fall 2024)

Current Role: UG Student @ University of Cincinnati

Nitin Vasudevan
BS
(Spring 2024 - Fall 2024)

Current Role: UG Student @ University of Cincinnati

Josh Jones
MEng
(Fall 2024 - Summer 2025)

Current Role: Systems Engineer @ Kaney

Anirudh Chhabra
PhD
(Fall 2019 - Summer 2025)

Current Role: To be updated.