Position Title
CSER Satellite Lab Manager
Chief Scientist
Since graduating from UC Davis, Adam has worked as an Attitude Determination and Control System (ADCS) Engineer and Systems Engineer (SE) for the Millennium Integration & Engineering Co. at the NASA Ames Research Center. During this time, he has been a part of several CubeSat projects spanning the entire life cycle of space missions: initial concept and feasibility, design and development, integration and testing, and launch and mission operations. Adam's dissertation topic is the Guidance, Navigation, and Control algorithms for a deployable, autonomous inspection small satellite. Adam also serves as the Satellite Lab Manager, acting as a resource for the many technology development projects, and the Chief Scientist, providing guidance on the lab's many research projects.
- M.S. Aerospace Engineering and Astronautics, Stanford University, 2019
- B.S. Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, UC Davis, 2017
- Teaching Assistant Excellence Award, UCD College of Engineering, 2023
- Best Student Paper, AIAA ASCEND Conference, 2024
- EAE140, Rocket Propulsion
- EAE143A, Space Vehicle Design
- EAE143B, Space Mission Design
- "Preliminary Results from the CHOMPTT Laser Time-Transfer Mission", Small Satellite Conference, 2019
- "NASA's Surface Deformation and Change Mission Study", IEEE Aerospace Conference, 2021
- "Optical Time-Transfer for Bistatic SAR Small Spacecraft", Small Satellite Conference, 2021
- "Design and Flight of an Autonomous Rogallo Glider for Recovery of High-Altitude Balloon Payloads and Data", AIAA ASCEND Conference, 2024
- "Safe and Minimal-Thrust Trajectories for In-Space Inspection and Proximity Operations", AIAA SciTech Conference, 2026
- "Enabling Technologies for a Low-Cost, Deployable Inspection Satellite", AIAA SciTech Conference, 2026
- "Machine Learning Detection of Lithium Plating in Lithium-Ion Cells: A Gaussian Process Approach", American Control Conference, 2026