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Best Paper Award 3rd place at Fusion 2024

Dr. Servadio‘s paper “Propagation of Uncertainty with the Koopman Operator,” in collaboration with MIT authors, was awarded Best Paper 3rd Place Award at the 27th International Conference of Information Fusion in Venice out of more than 600 papers.

The paper is available online here, and a journal version is under peer review for Automatica.

 

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Graduate Student wins TEX Summer 2024

Erin Ashley was awarded the Teaching Excellence (TEX) Award for Summer 2024 at ISU. The purpose of these awards is to recognize and encourage outstanding teaching achievement by graduate students. The intent is to recognize up to 10% of the graduate students involved in teaching each year.

In his recommendation, Dr. Servadio recognized Erin’s outstanding contributions to teaching in the Aerospace Engineering department. He highlighted the great feedback from the students and Erin’s ability to encourage undergraduate students to develop the researcher mindset. Here is the story.

Awarded NASA Orbital Debris and Space Sustainability Grant

The SPACE Lab was awarded, as a subcontractor, the “NASA Sponsors New Research on Orbital Debris, Lunar Sustainability” on the project “Avoiding the Kessler Syndrome through policy intervention” from NASA Office of Technology, Policy & Strategy. The SPACE lab will be working alongside the MIT lead and their faculty members. Here is the story.

Awarded NASA Rapid Research Response R3 Grant on Space Domain Awareness

The SPACE Lab was awarded the NASA EPSCoR 2024 Rapid Response Research national grant for his project proposal, “Parameters Estimation for Informed Orbit Capacity Models, STMD.” The whole story is available here.

2024 National Conference on Undergraduate Research

Two SPACE Lab members won the NCUR video award. Jonak Bhagawati and Sushant Chiramana presented a poster titled “Development of a Temporal Space Debris Population Calculator,” awarded best research video at 2024 National Conference on Undergraduate Research, April 8-10, Long Beach, CA