December 2022
End-of-semester lunch!
November 2022
Siddarth Kaki passes his Ph.D. oral qualifying exam! Congrats!
August 2022
CDUS at the 2022 AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference in Charlotte, North Carolina!
March 2022
Arjun Ram passes his Ph.D. oral qualifying exam! Congrats!
February 2022
Dr. Akella is elected Fellow of AIAA, Class of 2022. Congrats Dr. Akella!
https://www.ae.utexas.edu/news/maruthi-akella-elected-fellow-of-aiaa
January 2022
Mihir Vedantam presents on “Jacobian Conditioned Two-Layer Stabilized Continuation for Computing Optimal Hypersonic Trajectories” at AIAA SciTech 2022!
December 2021
Alum Dr. Tyler Summers wins a NSF CAREER award. Congrats Dr. Summers!
https://news.utdallas.edu/science-technology/career-award-tyler-summers-2021/
November 2021
Dr. Akella is elected Fellow of IEEE, Class of 2022. Congrats Dr. Akella!
https://www.ae.utexas.edu/news/maruthi-akella-named-fellow-of-ieee
January 2021
Dr. Akella wins the American Astronautical Society’s Dirk Brouwer Award for 2020. Congratulations Dr. Akella!
https://www.ae.utexas.edu/news/maruthi-akella-wins-american-astronautical-society-s-dirk-brouwer-award
December 2020
Dr. Akella wins the IEEE 2020 Award for Technical Excellence in Aerospace Control. Congratulations Dr. Akella!
https://www.ae.utexas.edu/news/maruthi-akella-recognized-by-ieee-for-technical-excellence-in-aerospace-control
November 2020
Mihir Vedantam passes his Ph.D. written qualifying exams! Congrats!
October 2020
Dr. Akella is elected to the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) for 2020. Congratulations Dr. Akella!
https://www.ae.utexas.edu/news/two-texas-ase-em-faculty-members-elected-to-international-academy-of-astronautics
August 2020
Kirsten Tuggle successfully defends her PhD dissertation on “Model Selection for Gaussian Mixture Model Filtering and Sensor Scheduling“. Congratulations Kirsten!
December 2019
End-of-semester group lunch, and send-off for Marcelino!
November 2019
Marcelino Almeida successfully defends his PhD dissertation on “Quaternion Regression and Finite-Time Controllers for Attitude Dynamics”. Congratulations Marcelino!
October 2019
Arjun Ram passes his Ph.D. written qualifying exams!
September 2019
The Seeker CubeSat, a NASA Johnson Space Center mission for which Dr. Akella serves as the Principal Investigator for the spacecraft’s Visual Navigation system (VizNav), deployed from the Cygnus cargo resupply ship after leaving the International Space Station.
September 2019
Dr. Akella is selected as the new editor-in-chief (EIC) of the Journal of the Astronautical Sciences (JAS). Congratulations Dr. Akella!
August 2019
Marcelino Almeida wins the John Breakwell Student Award from the American Astronautical Society. He was recognized at the Awards ceremony at the 2019 AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Meeting held in Portland, ME. Congratulations Marcelino!
August 2019
Dr. Akella, Marcelino Almeida, and Arjun Ram traveled to Lockheed Martin in Fort Worth, TX. to demonstrate how autonomous inspection drones can self-localize, path plan, perform a mission, and avoid obstacles in a GPS denied environment.
July 2019
Siddarth Kaki passes his Ph.D. written qualifying exams!
April 2019
Dr. Akella delivered a plenary lecture at the 2019 EuroGNC Conference held in Milano, Italy. The title of his talk was “Robust Autonomy: Learning, Perception, and Trust for Aerospace Systems.”
https://eurognc19.polimi.it/program/
January 2019
Dr. Akella is elected to the Board of Directors of the American Astronautical Society. Congratulations Dr. Akella!
January 2019
Siddarth Kaki wins the “Tomorrow’s Technology Leaders: The 20 Twenties” award from Aviation Week Network and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). Congratulations Siddarth!
https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2019/01/07/1681313/0/en/Aviation-Week-Network-Announces-20-Twenties-Winners-for-2019-Top-Technology-Students-to-be-Honored-March-14-at-Laureates-Awards-Gala.html
November 2018
Dr. Akella delivered the Plenary (Highlight) Lecture on the subject of “Dynamic Scaling for High-Performance Aerospace Systems” at the International Academy of Astronautics SciTech Forum held in Moscow, Russia.
August 2018
Welcome to new graduate students Mihir Vedantam and Siddarth Kaki!
June 2018
Dr. Akella delivered the keynote lecture on “Trust and Autonomy for Robotic Systems” at the Dynamics Connections-2018 Conference hosted by General Dynamics Mission Systems in Palm Springs, CA.
April 2018
Siddarth Kaki receives a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship. Congratulations Siddarth!
April 2018
Kirsten Tuggle receives a Zonta International Amelia Earhart Fellowship. Congratulations Kirsten!
January 2018
Dr. Akella is elected as Chair for the Spaceflight Mechanics Committee for the American Astronautical Society. Congratulations Dr. Akella!