Mentorship
I’ve had the pleasure of advising and co-advising a number of research projects and theses. Below is a non-exhaustive list of those I worked with most closely.
Graduate Students (M.S.)
Thesis students
Omar Regantini — M.S. thesis, A Differential Algebra-Driven Sequential Convex Guidance Approach for Cislunar Rendezvous.
Politecnico di Milano — DAER
Advisors and co-advisors: A. Morselli, E. Burnett
Politecnico di Milano — DAER
Advisors and co-advisors: A. Morselli, E. Burnett
2024
Mattia Viviani — M.S. thesis, Leveraging Large Deployable Antennas as Quasi-Sails for CubeSat Missions: A Feasibility Study Using Convex Optimization.
Politecnico di Milano — DAER
Advisors and co-advisors: A. Morselli, E. Burnett
Politecnico di Milano — DAER
Advisors and co-advisors: A. Morselli, E. Burnett
2025
Michael Ferrantino — M.S. thesis, Computation of Invariant Tori Around Small Bodies Under Solar Radiation Pressure and Gravity Harmonics (working title).
Politecnico di Milano — DAER
Advisors and co-advisors: F. Topputo, G. Grossi, E. Burnett
Politecnico di Milano — DAER
Advisors and co-advisors: F. Topputo, G. Grossi, E. Burnett
2026
Undergraduate Students (B.S.)
Research projects
Sam Alvis — CU Boulder Discovery Learning Apprenticeship Program, Aerocapture guidance and trajectory design.
University of Colorado Boulder — CCAR
University of Colorado Boulder — CCAR
Fall 2021
Kai Xi and R. Mia Tian — Roberto Rocca MIT–Italy Exchange, Four-Body Trajectory Design in the Earth–Moon System.
Politecnico di Milano — DAER
Politecnico di Milano — DAER
Summer 2024
Other Mentoring Experiences
Josh Stoffel — New Grad Rotation (NGR) Program, Path-constrained indirect trajectory optimization.
Blue Origin
Blue Origin
Spring 2023