Winston Levin is a Ph.D. candidate and graduate research assistant at Purdue University in the Center for Integrated Systems in Aerospace. He earned his B.S. and M.S. in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from Purdue in 2020 and 2022, respectively. His research focuses on leveraging optimal control theory to benchmark optimal vehicle performance as well as applying various methods from graph theory, control theory and machine learning to approximate or solve the nonlinear optimal control for real-time applications. Research Interests: Global Optimization, Graph Search, Optimal Control Theory, Pseudospectral Methods, Guidance Laws, Homotopy