Early Career Faculty (ECF) 2025 Awards

Jul 10, 2026

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Advanced Diagnostics for High-Enthalpy Test Facilities Simulating Spacecraft Atmospheric Entry

• Damiano Baccarella
  University of Tennessee, Knoxville
  Application of Resonance Enhanced Multi-Photon Ionization Diagnostics to the Characterization of Arcjet Flows​
• Ciprian Dumitrache
  Colorado State University
  Ultrafast Laser Diagnostics for Nonequilibrium Flowfields Characterization in Atmospheric Entry Studies​
• Dan Fries
  University of Kentucky, Lexington
  Multiplexed Polarization Spectroscopy for Single-Shot Multi-Species Diagnostics in High-Enthalpy Flows​
• Yi Mazumdar
  Georgia Institute of Technology
  Simultaneous Temperature, Species, and Velocity Measurements using Ultrafast Laser Diagnostics for Ground Testing of Spacecraft Atmospheric Entry Systems​

Planning for Autonomous Spacecraft Using Machine Learning Methods to Enable Onboard Guidance, Navigation, and Control

• Glen Chou
  Colorado School of Mines
  Robust Real-Time Hierarchical Neural Planning and Control with System-Level Guarantees
• Roshan Eapen
  University of California, Berkeley
  Hamilton-Jacobi aided Planning and Reasoning for Intelligent Spacecraft Maneuvers (HJ-PRISM)
• Bin Hu
  Stanford University 
  Safety-Enabled and Efficient Onboard Planning for Autonomous Spacecraft via Physics-Informed Reinforcement Learning