Keith LeGrand
(he/him/his)
2022 -
Assistant Professor
Degrees
Ph.D. Cornell University, Aerospace Engineering, 2022
M.S. Missouri University of Science and Technology, Aerospace Engineering, 2015
B.S. Missouri University of Science and Technology, Aerospace Engineering, 2014
M.S. Missouri University of Science and Technology, Aerospace Engineering, 2015
B.S. Missouri University of Science and Technology, Aerospace Engineering, 2014
Contact
701 W. Stadium Ave.
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2045
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2045
Office:
ARMS 3213
Office Phone:
(765) 496-3592
Email:
klegrand@purdue.edu
Webpage:
http://keithlegrand.com/
Interests
multi-sensor multi-object tracking; spacecraft navigation; space domain awareness; intelligent sensor control and tasking
Awards and Major Appointments
(2025) AFOSR Young Investigator Program
(2025) ISIF Young Investigator Award
(2023) Best Paper Award, Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance Technologies Conference (AMOS)
(2023) E.F. Bruhn Teaching Award
(2021) First Runner-up Best Student Paper Award, International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION)
(2020) Best Student Paper Award, International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION)
(2017) Mission Innovator Award, Sandia National Laboratories
(2015-2019) Senior Member of Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories
(2025) ISIF Young Investigator Award
(2023) Best Paper Award, Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance Technologies Conference (AMOS)
(2023) E.F. Bruhn Teaching Award
(2021) First Runner-up Best Student Paper Award, International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION)
(2020) Best Student Paper Award, International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION)
(2017) Mission Innovator Award, Sandia National Laboratories
(2015-2019) Senior Member of Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories
Publications
Please refer to my Google Scholar page for a more complete list.
J. Kulik and K.A. LeGrand, “Nonlinearity and Uncertainty Informed Moment-Matching Gaussian Mixture Splitting, ” https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.00343https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.00343
J.L. Iannamorelli and K.A. LeGrand, “Adaptive Gaussian Mixture Filtering for Multi-Sensor Maneuvering Cislunar Space Object Tracking,”Journal of the Astronautical Sciences, Vol 72, No. 2, 2025, doi:10.1007/s40295-024-00478-z
K.A. LeGrand and S. Ferrari, “Split Happens! Imprecise and Negative Information in Gaussian Mixture Random Finite Set Filtering,” Journal of Advances in Information Fusion, Vol 17, No. 2, December, 2022, doi:link
K.A. LeGrand, P. Zhu, and S. Ferrari, “Cell Multi-Bernoulli (Cell-MB) Sensor Control for Multi-object Search-While-Tracking (SWT),” IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, doi:10.1109/TPAMI.2022.3223856
H. Wei, K.A. LeGrand, A.A. Paradise, and S. Ferrari, “Real-time Communication Control in Decentralized Autonomous Sensor Networks,” Journal of Aerospace Information Systems, 2022, doi:10.2514/1.I010934
J. Kulik and K.A. LeGrand, “Nonlinearity and Uncertainty Informed Moment-Matching Gaussian Mixture Splitting, ” https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.00343https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.00343
J.L. Iannamorelli and K.A. LeGrand, “Adaptive Gaussian Mixture Filtering for Multi-Sensor Maneuvering Cislunar Space Object Tracking,”Journal of the Astronautical Sciences, Vol 72, No. 2, 2025, doi:10.1007/s40295-024-00478-z
K.A. LeGrand and S. Ferrari, “Split Happens! Imprecise and Negative Information in Gaussian Mixture Random Finite Set Filtering,” Journal of Advances in Information Fusion, Vol 17, No. 2, December, 2022, doi:link
K.A. LeGrand, P. Zhu, and S. Ferrari, “Cell Multi-Bernoulli (Cell-MB) Sensor Control for Multi-object Search-While-Tracking (SWT),” IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, doi:10.1109/TPAMI.2022.3223856
H. Wei, K.A. LeGrand, A.A. Paradise, and S. Ferrari, “Real-time Communication Control in Decentralized Autonomous Sensor Networks,” Journal of Aerospace Information Systems, 2022, doi:10.2514/1.I010934