Early Career Faculty (ECF) 2025 Awards

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 Georgia Institute of Technology Robust Real-Time Hierarchical Neural Planning and Control with System-Level Guarantees - Roshan Eapen Pennsylvania State University Hamilton-Jacobi aided Planning and Reasoning for Intelligent Spacecraft Maneuvers (HJ-PRISM) - Bin Hu University of Houston Safety-Enabled and Efficient Onboard Planning for Autonomous Spacecraft via Physics-Informed Reinforcement Learning