Engineering / University work
Selected work
Flight programs and research platforms spanning VLEO autonomy, small-satellite systems, superconducting devices, and optimal estimation.
Flight mission · 2025—Present
Architecting the electronics, firmware, ADCS, and flight software for an autonomous MembraneSat-class vehicle. The two-timescale control stack pairs a ground-trained PPO advisor with a 10 Hz quaternion-feedback inner loop on STM32U575/FreeRTOS.
Flight demonstrator · 2026—Present
Leading ADCS, avionics, and flight software for a cost-constrained chipsat-class demonstrator, including custom magnetorquers, avionics and power PCBs, and flight-integrated ARLAMX.
On orbit · 2024—Present
Maintaining the Linux ground-station network and mission automation while deploying ARLAMX as an indirect mission planner validated against more than a year of flight telemetry.
Research platform
A multi-objective deep reinforcement-learning attitude advisor using aerodynamic drag and solar radiation pressure as secondary actuation. Onboard-scale policies target STM32U575 deployment with a B-dot safe mode.
Simulation · 2025—Present
A C++/Python astrodynamics framework that builds geometry-true MembraneSat and CubeSat plants from STL/OBJ meshes with free-molecular-flow aerodynamics, SRP, and stacked perturbations.
Research · 2026—Present
Extending Meissner-effect and terahertz-transistor research through independently verified PyTDGL simulations, a supporting device-physics library, and custom neural-compute concepts.
Controls · 2025—2026
A real-time STM32/Python closed loop for the SolarCat plant with exact ZOH discretization, discrete pole placement, UART validation, CRC fault detection, and B-dot detumbling.
Estimation · 2025
EKF, IEKF, batch least-squares, and RTS smoothing for range/range-rate observations under J2/J3 perturbations, with residual analysis for unmodeled cross-track dynamics.
In orbit / In development
