Major: Aerospace Engineering
PhD Candidate
Howdy! I now work within the Estimation, Decision, and Planning Laboratory at Texas A&M University, where I work on cislunar target tracking research. Find me here! During my time at the LASSO Laboratory, I worked to build our laboratory’s new Digital Signal Processing (DSP) thrust from the ground up by advancing LASSO’s research portfolio in phase-meter development as well as data acquisition systems.
Education:
- M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2026
- B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 2020
Work Experience:
- Undergraduate Research Assistant – Scientific Computing Project under Dr. Srinivas Bettadpur, 2020
- Engineering Tutor – Differential Equations & Linear Algebra and Statics, Cockrell School of Engineering, 2017-2020
- Remote Sensing Summer Research Assistant – under Dr. Srinivas Bettadpur and Mrs. Teresa Howard at Center for Space Research, The University of Texas at Austin, 2019
- Undergraduate Research Assistant – System Identification Research under Dr. Elodie Chanthery and Dr. Danièle Fournier-Prunaret at Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA), Toulouse, France, 2018
Honors & Awards:
- AERO Department Travel Grant Award (Academic Year 2025-2026), Texas A&M University Department of Aerospace Engineering, 2026
- 2nd Prize for Best Student Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems, 2025
- AERO Department Travel Grant Award (Academic Year 2024-2025), Texas A&M University Department of Aerospace Engineering, 2025
- Sigma Gamma Tau (Aerospace Engineering Honor Society), Texas A&M University, 2021
- Computational Science and Engineering Certificate, Oden Institute of Computational Engineering and Sciences, 2020
- TexasView Research and Education Grant, TexasView Remote Sensing Consortium, 2019
Specific Research Interests:
- Guidance, navigation, and control (GN&C)
- Signal processing
- State estimation
- Digital data acquisition systems
- Multi-sensor fusion
- Hardware/Software co-design
Timeline:
- [May 2026] Awarded the AERO Departmental Travel Grant Award to present the work “A Hybrid Particle Gaussian Mixture Filtering Method for Cislunar Target Tracking Under Extreme Uncertainty” at the 2026 AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference in Whistler, BC, Canada (preprint)
- [April 2026] Accepted a full-time job offer somewhere exciting! (details TBA)
- [November 2025] Admitted to PhD candidacy after passing the PhD preliminary examination and submitting a research proposal
- [September 2025] Presented the paper “Gaussian Mixture Model Fusion Across Decentralized Sensor Networks,” which won 2nd Prize for Best Student Paper Award at the 2025 IEEE Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration (MFI) for Intelligent Systems in College Station, TX (link)
- [August 2025] Awarded the AERO Departmental Travel Grant Award to present the work “Gaussian Mixture Model Fusion Across Decentralized Sensor Networks” at the 2025 IEEE Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration (MFI) for Intelligent Systems in College Station, TX
- [August 2025] Presented the paper “Cislunar Domain Multi-Target Search and Estimation Strategies
After Long Sensor Shutoffs” at the 2025 AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference in Boston, MA (link) - [January 2025] Presented the paper “Cislunar Initial Orbit Determination and Target Tracking Using Kinematic Fitting and Particle Gaussian Mixture Filtering” at the 2025 AAS/AIAA Spaceflight Mechanics Meeting in Kaua’i County, HI (link)
- [February 2024] Presented the paper “Multi-Sensor Tasking Strategies for Situational Awareness” at the 46th Annual American Astronautical Society (AAS) Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference in Breckenridge, CO
- [August 2023] Left LASSO to join the Estimation, Decision, and Planning (EDP) Laboratory
- [June 2022] Passed the Aerospace Fundamentals Qualifying Exam (AFQE)
- [September 2021] Promoted to Graduate Assistant – Research with LASSO
- [August 2021] Started PhD program in Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University
- [August 2021] Joined LASSO as a Summer Research Assistant