Winston Levin

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. "Indirect Trajectory Optimization Using Automatic Differentiation" - MS Thesis, December 2022 Levin, W. C. (2022). Indirect trajectory optimization using automatic differentiation [Master's thesis, Purdue University]. Purdue University Graduate School. https://hammer.purdue.edu/articles/thesis/Indirect_ Trajectory_Optimization_Using_Automatic_ Differentiation/21669560 Research Interests: Global Optimization, Graph Search, Optimal Control Theory, Pseudospectral Methods, Guidance Laws, Homotopy