News 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. https://www.ae.utexas.edu/maruthi-akella-and-students-develop-intelligent-vision-system-for-nasa-s-seeker-1-program September 2019 Dr. Akella is selected as the new editor-in-chief (EIC) of the Journal of the Astronautical Sciences (JAS). Congratulations Dr. Akella! https://www.ae.utexas.edu/maruthi-akella-selected-editor-in-chief-of-journal-of-astronautical-sciences 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! https://www.zonta.org/Media-News/News-Feed/News-Detail/learn-about-zonta-internationals-2018-ae-fellows January 2018 Dr. Akella is elected as Chair for the Spaceflight Mechanics Committee for the American Astronautical Society. Congratulations Dr. Akella!
