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Jason Cornelius
Lecturer, Aeronautics and Astronautics
BioDr. Jason Cornelius is an aerospace engineer in the Aeromechanics Office at NASA Ames Research Center. His research interests are at the intersection of high-performance GPU computing and machine learning towards aerospace vehicle design optimization. Jason has supported the NASA Dragonfly New Frontiers Mission since its inception in 2016, focusing on the rotor aerodynamic and structural design. He is now PI for the Digital Transformation Prototype Project, “Multi-fidelity ML-based Surrogate Models for Terrestrial and Planetary Aerial Vehicles” and the NASA ARC Center Innovation Fund project, “Surrogate-based Design Optimization for a Long-Range Mars Rotorcraft.” Dr. Cornelius received his PhD from the Pennsylvania State University as a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. He received the 2023 AIAA Young Professional of the Year Award and has received best paper awards for his work in machine-learning rotor aerodynamic design optimization.
Outside of work, Jason has spent considerable time in both Russia and China, where he learned new languages and explored different cultures. His main goal is to build strong teams to solve some of the world's toughest engineering problems.
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Adam Ctverak
Masters Student in Aeronautics and Astronautics, admitted Autumn 2024
BioAs a leader of multiple international aerospace development projects, I've learned how to stay operationally efficient while facilitating the cooperation of national space agencies and private industry representatives. With five consecutive summers of experience working at American and European aerospace firms, coupled with my excellent academic standing, I am well-equipped to provide a relevant contribution to any aerospace project.
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Simone D'Amico
Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and, by courtesy, of Geophysics
BioSimone D’Amico is Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AA), W.M. Keck Faculty Scholar in the School of Engineering, and Professor of Geophysics (by Courtesy). He is the Founding Director of the Space Rendezvous Laboratory and Director of the AA Undergraduate Program. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from Politecnico di Milano (2003) and the Ph.D. degree from Delft University of Technology (2010). Before Stanford, Dr. D’Amico was research scientist and team leader at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) for 11 years. There he gave key contributions to formation-flying and proximity operations missions such as GRACE (NASA/DLR), PRISMA (OHB/DLR/CNES/DTU), TanDEM-X (DLR), BIROS (DLR) and PROBA-3 (ESA). His research aims at enabling future miniature distributed space systems for unprecedented remote sensing, space and planetary science, exploration and spaceflight sustainability. To this end he performs fundamental and applied research at the intersection of advanced astrodynamics, spacecraft Guidance, Navigation and Control (GNC), autonomy, decision making and space system engineering. Dr. D’Amico is institutional PI of three upcoming autonomous satellite swarm missions funded by NASA and NSF, namely STARLING, VISORS, and SWARM-EX. He is Fellow of AAS, Associate Fellow of AIAA, Associate Editor of AIAA JGCD, Advisor of NASA and several space startups. He was the recipient of several awards, including Best Paper Awards at IAF (2022), IEEE (2021), AIAA (2021), AAS (2019) conferences, the Leonardo 500 Award by the Leonardo da Vinci Society/ISSNAF (2019), FAI/NAA’s Group Diploma of Honor (2018), DLR’s Sabbatical/Forschungssemester (2012) and Wissenschaft Preis (2006), and NASA’s Group Achievement Award for the GRACE mission (2004).
