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 Astronautics from the University of Tokyo in 2017 and 2015, respectively. He has experience working on multiple space flight projects as a mission designer at NASA JPL and JAXA, where he worked on Psyche (NASA), NEA Scout (NASA), EQUULEUS (JAXA), and PROCYON (JAXA).