Researchers
Director
Kenshiro Oguri
Assistant Professor
koguri@purdue.edu
ARMS 2021
Kenshiro Oguri is an Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Purdue University. His research group focuses on addressing scientific and engineering challenges in space exploration through advancing the state of the art in space mission design, space trajectory optimization, spacecraft guidance, navigation, and control (GNC), and space autonomy. He received his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering Sciences from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2021, M.S. and B.S. in Aeronautics and ...
Graduate Students
- Hometown - Seattle, WA
- Degree - BSME United States Air Force Academy '22, pursuing MSAAE Purdue '24
- Research Interest: Astrodynamics, spacecraft autonomy
- Background: Air Force Academy graduate, US Space Force 2nd Lieutenant - Astronautical Developmental Engineer
- Hobbies: Skiing/snowboarding, mountain biking, hiking
Naoya Kumagai is a PhD student in the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Purdue University. He received his B.S. in Applied Mathematics from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2022. His current research focuses on stochastic optimal control theory and its applications to robust control of spacecraft under uncertainty. He is also interested in developing new control methods that enable autonomous space missions.
- Hometown – Philadelphia, PA
- Degree – BS AAE (Spring 23)
- Research Interests – Astrodynamics, Mission Design, Astrodynamics in Perturbed Environments
- Background – Past internship at Katalyst Space Technologies
- Hobbies – Cooking, Climbing, Tennis
- Hometown - Cincinnati, OH
- Degree - BSAAE Purdue '22, pursuing MSAAE Purdue '24
- Major - Undergrad: Propulsion, Grad: Astrodynamics and Controls
- Research Interest: OSAM capabilities, relative spacecraft dynamics
- Background: Air Force ROTC graduate, US Space Force 2nd Lieutenant - Astronautical Developmental Engineer
- Born in Tokyo, Japan
- Degrees: Pursuing BSAAE(2023) & MSAA(2024) combined program from Purdue University
- Research interest: Simulation, estimation, control in active space debris removal missions
- Internship: PD Aerospace Ltd.
- Hobbies: workout, soccer, website front/backend engineering
- Hometown: Flemington, NJ
- Education: BSAAE Purdue (Winter '22), MSAAE Purdue (Winter '23)
- Research Interest: Autonomy and Control, Astrodynamics, Simulation and Modelling
- Hobbies: Hiking, Gym, Tennis, Foodie
Minyoung (Philip) Ra is a graduate student from the state of Georgia pursuing his Master’s degree. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at Purdue University in 2022 and anticipates transitioning into the Ph.D. program in the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Purdue University. His research focuses on the robust navigation and control of autonomous multi-spacecraft systems in complex dynamics, especially in a multi-body regime, via ...
I’m a first-year PhD student in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Purdue University. I got my bachelor’s and Master’s in Aerospace Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 2022. My master’s thesis focused on autonomous spacecraft navigation using x-ray pulsars. Before coming to Purdue, I interned at ISSL, University of Tokyo, where I worked on spacecraft rendezvous using model predictive control.
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Yanis Sidhoum is a Ph.D. student in the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics Engineering at Purdue University since Spring 2023. He received a M.S. in Aeronautical Engineering from the French National Civil Aviation University (ENAC) and a M.S. in Astronautics and Space Engineering from Cranfield University, UK, in 2022 and 2023, respectively. His research is focused on low-thrust trajectory optimization in multi-body dynamics using indirect methods. Current applications include trajectory ...
- Hometown: Mexico City, Mexico
- Education:
- B.Sc. Physics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
- Currently pursuing MSAA at Purdue University. Major: ASA, Minor: Dynamics & Control
- Research interests:
- Astrodynamics
- Trajectory optimization
- Mission design
- Control theory
- Solar System ...
- Hometown: Pittsburgh, PA
- Degree: BSAAE (Spring 2023)
- Research Interests: Astrodynamics, Interplanetary Mission Design, Spacecraft Digital Twins
- Past Research: Student Researcher at TU Braunschweig Institute for Space Systems
- Hobbies: Music Production, Dynamics Visualization
- Website: https://varghesejerryj.editorx.io/portfolio
Alumni
Adarsh graduated with MS in 2023 from the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, he started his MS in Fall 2021 at Purdue. He did his bachelor's in aerospace engineering from RV College of Engineering (RVCE), Bangalore, India. He had served as Chief Technical Officer at a student space technology team ("Team Antariksh") in RVCE. Prior to joining Purdue as a full-time student, he had worked at Airbus, and built eCommerce website for a company elsewhere. Adarsh comes from the holy city of ...
- Hometown: Hyderabad, India
- Degrees:
- BTech in Aerospace Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM'20)
- MS in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Purdue University (Spring'23) - Major: ASA, Minor: Dynamics and Control
- Research interests: Astrodynamics, GNC, Trajectory optimization, Mission design, Autonomous systems
- Experience:
- Research Project: Working with ...
Omar Awad graduated with a Ph.D. in 2023 and was a Draper scholar. He received his M.S. and B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of South Florida in 2020 and 2018, respectively. During his studies in Florida he worked on a multidisciplinary team to build cubesats for the Air Force that are currently in low-Earth orbit. His responsibilities included the mechanical design, simulation, and fabrication of the cubesats as well as the navigation and control system design. His current ...
- Hometown: New Palestine, IN
- BS AAE (Spring 22), MS AAE (Spring 23) -- Major: ASA, Minor: Systems
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Experience:
- GTA for AAE440: Spacecraft Attitude Dynamics (Fall 22)
- Research Project (Fall 22): Cislunar Trajectory Optimization Tool Development with Prof. Oguri (Begun Spring 22, Continued for Fall 22)
- Axiom Space GN&C Intern (Summer 22)
- NASA JSC Human Spaceflight Architecture Systems Engineering Intern ...