Sydney Dolan

Note: The list is in random order. There are many more professors working in this discipline, if you see a professor I am missing, please feel free to shoot me an email! I would love for this to be a living document. I update this page intermittently.
Last Update: July 18

Machine learning applied to interplanetary and cislunar astrodynamics and space situational awareness problems

This category captures all work related to modeling space traffic management, astrodynamics, and multi-body systems through some sort of machine learning mechanism.

University Name	Professor Name	Subdiscipline	Lab Website
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Richard Linares	space situational awareness, orbital capacity	https://aeroastro.mit.edu/arclab/
University of Texas Austin	Moriba Jah	space sustainability	https://sites.utexas.edu/moriba/
University of Colorado Boulder	Marcus Holzinger	space situational awareness	https://www.colorado.edu/faculty/holzinger/
Embry Riddle Aeronautical University	Di Wu	generative AI for astrodynamics	https://diwu.webflow.io
University of Michigan	Giusey Falcone	Trajectory optimization	https://www.spacefalconlab.com
Univeristy of Auckland	Roberto Armellin	Trajectory opimization	https://profiles.auckland.ac.nz/roberto-armellin
University of New South Wales Sydney	Melrose Brown	space traffic management	https://www.unsw.edu.au/staff/melrose-brown
Georgia Tech	Koki Ho	cislunar dynamics	https://ssog.ae.gatech.edu/
Georgia Tech	Thomas Roberts	orbital capacity, space policy	https://www.thomasgroberts.com
Purdue University	Kathleen Howell	Multi-body dynamics	https://engineering.purdue.edu/people/kathleen.howell.1/index.html
University of Arizona	Roberto Furfaro	Planetary Landing	https://sie.engineering.arizona.edu/faculty-staff/faculty/roberto-furfaro
University of Politécnica de Madrid	Victor Rodriguez-Fernandez	conjunction assessment	https://aida.etsisi.upm.es/member/victor-rodriguez-fernandez/
University of Colorado Boulder	Hanspeter Schaub	satellite scheduling	https://hanspeterschaub.info/main.html
Purdue University	Carolin Frueh	satellite scheduling	https://engineering.purdue.edu/AAE/people/ptProfile?resource_id=111420
University of Colorado Boulder	Natasha Bosanac	multi-body dynamics	https://www.colorado.edu/aerospace/natasha-bosanac

Computer vision applied to space applications

This category captures all work related to computer vision development, with subdisciplines on spacecraft pose estimation, star tracking, structure from orbit, terrain relative navigation, and event cameras applied to space

University Name	Professor Name	Subdiscipline	Lab Website
York University	Regina Lee	star tracking	http://www.yorku.ca/reginal/team.html
University of Adelaide	Tat Jun Chin	pose estimation	https://researchers.adelaide.edu.au/profile/tat-jun.chin
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Richard Linares	structure from orbit, terrain relative navigation	https://aeroastro.mit.edu/arclab/
Western Sydney University	Gregory Cohen	event camera star tracking	https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/icns/about/people/researchers/gregory_cohen
Stanford University	Simone D’Amico	pose estimation	https://slab.stanford.edu
Cornell University	Dmitry Savransky	Event Camera Space Situational Awareness	https://www.engineering.cornell.edu/people/dmitry-savransky/
Air Force Institute of Technology	Rachel Oliver	Event Camera Space Situational Awareness	https://www.afit.edu/bios/bio.cfm?facID=2062
Air Force Academy	Brian McReynolds	Event Cameras Space Situational Awareness	https://www.usafa.edu/physics-faculty/
University of Colorado Boulder	Marcus Holzinger	space domain awareness, orbit determination	https://www.colorado.edu/aerospace/marcus-holzinger
Technical University of Munich	Alessandro Golkar	Event cameras Space Situational Awareness	https://www.professoren.tum.de/en/golkar-alessandro
University of Arizona	Roberto Furfaro	Terrain Relative Navigation	https://sie.engineering.arizona.edu/faculty-staff/faculty/roberto-furfaro
Georgia Tech	John Christian	Terrain Relative Navigation	https://ssdl.gatech.edu/faculty/dr-john-christian/
Iowa State	Simone Servadio	Pose estimation	https://www.engineering.iastate.edu/people/profile/servadio/
Delft University of Technology	Gabriele Meoni

Planning problems related to space robots

University Name	Professor Name	Subdiscipline	Lab Website
University of Southern California	Keenan Albee	Planning in Extreme environments	https://albee.github.io
University of Colorado Boulder	Zachary Sunberg	POMDPs	https://www.colorado.edu/recuv/zachary-sunberg
University of Washington	Behçet Açikmeşe	Entry, descent, landing	https://www.aa.washington.edu/facultyfinder/behcet-acikmese
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Brian Williams	Chance constrained planning, planning domain definition language	https://aeroastro.mit.edu/people/brian-c-williams/

Reinforcement learning for space applications

University Name	Professor Name	Subdiscipline	Lab Website
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Hamsa Balakrishnan	multi-agent reinforcement learning	https://aeroastro.mit.edu/dinamo-group/
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Richard Linares	RL for landing and scheduling	https://aeroastro.mit.edu/arclab/
University of Colorado Boulder	Hanspeter Schaub	RL fo scheduling and trajectory optimization	https://hanspeterschaub.info/main.html
University of Arizona	Roberto Fufaro	RL for Inspection	https://sie.engineering.arizona.edu/faculty-staff/faculty/roberto-furfaro
Georgia Tech	Brian Gunter	RL operations	https://ae.gatech.edu/directory/person/brian-c-gunter
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University	Hao Peng	RL for satellite reorientation	https://faculty.erau.edu/Hao.Peng