Mark L Psiaki
Kevin Crofton Faculty Chair in Aerospace and Ocean Engineering
- Ph.D. (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering), Princeton University, 1987
- M.A. (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering), Princeton University, 1984
- B.A. (Physics), Princeton University, 1979
Mark Psiaki, professor, Aerospace and Ocean Engineering
Aerospace and Ocean Engineering (MC0119)
Durham Hall, RM 335 MC0203
1145 Perry Street
Blacksburg, VA 24061
Durham Hall, RM 335 MC0203
1145 Perry Street
Blacksburg, VA 24061
- Estimation and Kalman filtering.
- GPS/GNSS signal processing, security, & integrity.
- Radio navigation.
- Inertial navigation.
- Satellite attitude determination.
- Satellite orbit determination.
- Inverse problems in remote sensing.
- Fellow of the AIAA, 2017-present.
- Fellow of the Institute of Navigation (ION), 2014-present.
- AIAA Mechanics of Control and Flight Award, 2022
- ION Johannes Kepler Award, 2021
- ION Tycho Brahe Award, 2013.
- ION Burka Award, 2005, 2021.
- Best-Paper-at-Conference Awards for 4 AIAA Guidance, Navigation, & Control Conferences: 1997, 2005, 2007, & 2009.
- Best-Paper-at-Conference Awards for 2 AIAA/AAS Astrodynamics Specialist Conferences: 1998 & 2002.
- Mechanical Design Engineer, RCA Astro-Electronics, East Windsor, NJ, 1979-1982.
- Graduate Student & Assistant in Instruction, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, 1982-1986.
- Professor (acting assistant, then assistant, then associate, then full), Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, 1986-2016.
- Professor Emeritus, Sibley School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, 2016-present.
- Professor & Kevin Crofton Faculty Chair, Kevin Crofton Dept. of Aerospace & Ocean Engineering, Virginia Tech, 2016-present.