People

Career

• 2019 - present, Assistant Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, KAIST

• 2017 - 2019, GNC Engineer, Planet Labs

• 2008 - 2014, Associate Research Engineer, AOCS Team, Satrec Initiative

Education

2017, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Aeronautics and Astronautics, Ph.D.

• Thesis : Pointing and Tracking System Analysis and Design for Optical Intersatellite Communication Link

2010, KAIST, Aerospace Engineering, M.S.

• Thesis : Star Recognition Algorithm in Dynamic Environment

2008, KAIST, Aerospace Engineering, B.S.

Research Experience

Planet Labs

• 2017-2019, GNC, star tracker, attitude calibration, SkySat LEOP, SkySat thruster operation

MIT STAR Lab

• 2015 - 2017, Project FLARE(Free-space LaserCom. and Radiation Experiment), Attitude Determination & Control

• 2015 - 2017, Project NODE(Nanosatellite Optical Downlink Experiment), Ground Station Development

• 2015 - 2016, A Tall Ship and a Star to Steer Her By, funded by NASA , Prototype CubeSat

Satrec Initiative

• 2008 - 2014, Attitude Determination & control for DubaiSat-2 and Deimos-2

• 2008 - 2014, Satellite Orbit Determination Using GPS

• 2008 - 2014, System Engineering for Dubaisat-2 and Deimos-2

KAIST

• 2008 - 2010, Star Centroiding for Star Sensor in Dynamic Environment

• 2008 - 2010, CubeSat System design Project

• 2008, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle(UAV)

백기욱 (Baeck, Kiwook)

2021.9 - present, Ph.D. Student, Aerospace Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea

2021.8, M.S., Aerospace Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea

• Thesis : Analytic Evaluation of Pointing Error on Free-space Optical Communication Satellite

2019.8, B.S., Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Yonsei Univ., Seoul, Korea

Research Topic:

• Intersatellite Communication

• Laser Pointing System

• Satellite jitter control

파울로 (Paulo Kemper)

2021.9 - present, Ph.D. Student, Aerospace Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea

2014.3, M.S., Green Transportation, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea

• Thesis : Lithium-ion battery electrochemical model for high-current control applications: Extended Single Particle Model

2012.2, B.S., Electrical Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea

2008.3, Associates in Electronic Engineering, Nippon Engineering College, Tokyo, Japan

Research Topic:

• CubeSat navigation systems

• Star Tracking algorithms

위준성 (Wi, Junsung)

2022.3 - present, Ph.D. Student, Aerospace Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea

2022.2, M.S., Aerospace Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea

• Thesis : Colored Noise Kalman Filter with Star Tracker Calibration Parameter for Satellite Attitude Estimation

2020.2, B.S., Aerospace Engineering, Inha Univ., Incheon, Korea

Research Topic :

• Star Tracker Calibration

• Satellite Attitude Determination & Control

• LEO Satellite Orbit Control

박용준 (Park, Yongjun)

2022.9 - present, Ph.D. Student, Aerospace Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea

2022.8, M.S., Aerospace Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea

• Thesis : Fast Search Method to Determine a Maximum Torque for General Configuration RWA using DCM

2020.8, B.S., Aerospace Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea

Research Topic :

• Satellite Attitude Determination

• Satellite Optimum Navigation

한효근 (Han, Hyogeun)

2021.9 - present, M.S. Student, Aerospace Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea

2021.3 - 2021.8, Contract Researcher, Aerospace Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea

2021.2, B.S., Aerospace Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea

Research Topic :

• Attitude Determination Sensor Calibration

• Sun Sensor with Diffraction Optics

이윤후 (Lee, Yoonhoo)

2022.3 - present, M.S. Student, Aerospace Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea

2021.8, B.S., Aerospace Engineering, Korea Aerospace Univ., Gyeonggi-do, Korea

Research Topic :

• Laser Communication

• Satellite Attitude Control

김승환 (Kim, Seunghwan)

2022.3 - present, M.S. Student, Aerospace Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea

2022.2, B.S., Aerospace Engineering, Inha Univ., Incheon, Korea

Research Topic :

• Satellite Attitude Determination

• GNSS Remote Sensing

김형철 (Kim, Hyeongcheol)

2022.3 - present, M.S. Student, Aerospace Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea

2022.2, B.S., Aerospace Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea

Research Topic :

• Control Moment Gyroscope

윤정인 (Yun, Jeongin)

2021.3 - present (leave of absence), M.S. Student, Aerospace Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea

2021.3, B.S., Physics, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea

Research Topic :

• Satellite Orbit Determination

장재훈 (Jang, JaeHun)

To be updated

Research Topic :

• To be updated