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Research

Space-instrument software, aerospace systems, and motion analysis — and the papers this work feeds.

Projects 04

When to Compute in Space

with Dr. Gregory Falco · Cornell · 2025–26

Where should a computational task run — onboard flight computer, orbital data center, ground station, or terrestrial cloud — when latency, cost, energy, radiation, security, and reliability all conflict? Reframed a single-utility model as multi-objective trade-space search on the tier simplex; built the two-stage framework, both mission evaluators, and all six benchmarked optimizers behind the journal paper now under review.

Python · NSGA-II · SPEA2 · MOEA/D · MOPSO · ε-constraint

Roman Space Telescope — Target Database

SIOSLab, Dr. Dmitry Savransky · Cornell · Spring 2026

For the coronagraph instrument’s target database: built the importable Python query client with server-side star-alias resolution, ported PHP-only server scripts to Python, and populated all-sky ecliptic coordinates with asymmetric two-piece-normal Monte Carlo uncertainties. Two merged PRs on a NASA flagship’s planning tooling.

Python · SQL · astropy · Monte Carlo

Gemini Planet Imager 2.0

SIOSLab, Dr. Dmitry Savransky · Cornell · Fall 2025

Instrument-control software for a real exoplanet imager: ported the calibration (CAL) subsystem’s control routines from legacy proprietary IDL to Python over a shared RPC backend, with several merged PRs into the GPI 2.0 upgrade.

Python · IDL · RPC · pytest

Automated Functional Movement Screen

LISC, Dr. Silvia Ferrari · Cornell · Spring 2026

The analysis core of a VR posture-correction system driven by motion-diffusion and VLM feedback: from raw motion-capture quaternions, derives joint angles, ranges of motion, and clearances to grade the seven FMS physical-therapy exercises, scoring form 0–3 with a declarative rule interpreter whose guard operands reject biomechanical compensations.

Python · XSens MVNX · NumPy · quaternion kinematics