- Delivered speeches at multiple international conferences
- Founded a spin-off company, EraDrive, from SLAB
- Collaborating with national and international partners to pave the way for breakthrough demonstrations of new technology and science
Research Experience
- Leading SLAB to conduct fundamental and applied research aimed at developing new technologies for future distributed space systems
- Over 20 years of experience in designing, implementing, and flight operations of GN&C subsystems for formation-flying and on-orbit servicing missions
- Successfully contributed to several projects including GRACE (2003), TanDEM-X (2010), PRISMA (2010), BIROS (2016)
- Currently developing projects such as STARLING (2023), SWARM-EX (2024), VISORS (2024)
Background
- Research Interests: Formation flying, rendezvous and docking, swarming, and distributed space systems
- Professional Field: Astrodynamics, Guidance/Navigation/Control (GN&C), Environment Characterization, and Decision Making
- Brief Introduction: A professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University, leading the Stanford Space Rendezvous Laboratory (SLAB), focusing on developing next-generation distributed space systems.