bhanson10

I am a Ph.D. pre-candidate at UC San Diego, majoring in Aerospace Engineering, with a focus in astrodynamics and nonlinear state estimation. Co-advised by Dr. Thomas Bewley and Dr. Aaron Rosengren, I am currently pursuing research in the fields of uncertainty propagation and state estimation for artificial satellites in xGEO and deep space. I am a NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Opportunities Fellow, pursuing work in the field of uncertainty propagation for icy-moon missions with Dr. Todd Ely of JPL. In the summer of 2023, I interned at the Air Force Maui Optical and Supercomputing (AMOS) observatory as a part of the U.S. Air Force Research Lab Summer Faculty Fellowship Program. I graduated summa cum laude from the Colorado School of Mines with a B.S. in Engineering Physics, a minor in Robotics and Intelligent Systems, with an area of special interest in Space and Planetary Sciences. For more information on my current work, please visit www.benjamin-hanson.