People

The SESS lab is home to a diverse set of engineers and scientists passionate about the space environment. We share a common goal of enabling cutting-edge missions to advance mankind's ability to explore the universe.

Faculty/Staff

Sigrid Elschot
Professor
Nicolas Lee
Lecturer
Matthew Rose
Administrative Associate

Current Students

Kofi Blake
PhD Candidate
Nancy Diallo
PhD Candidate
Dennis Dong
PhD Candidate
Prachet Jain
Graduate Student
Michael Kwara
PhD Candidate
Neilabjo Maitra
PhD Candidate
Xiaohan Mei
PhD Candidate
Ana Morgado
PhD Candidate

Alumni

Jared Blanchard
Aerospace Corporation (PhD 2023)
Alex Crew
Johns Hopkins APL (Postdoc 2014-2016)
Ben Estacio
Johns Hopkins APL (PhD 2021)
Kimia Fereydooni
Mainspring Energy (MS 2021)
Joseph C. Ferguson
NASA Ames (PhD 2023)
Alex Fletcher
MIT/BU (PhD 2015)
Ashish Goel
JPL (PhD 2015)
Trevor Hedges
MIT Lincoln Lab (PhD 2025)
Monica Hew
KBR Inc. (PhD 2018)
Theresa Johnson
Airbnb (PhD 2015)
Diana Juarez Madera
Raytheon (PhD 2020)
Siddharth Krishnamoorthy
JPL (PhD 2017)
Raymond Lau
Inertia (PhD 2026)
Alan Li
NASA Ames (PhD 2016)
Lorenzo Limonta
End-to-End Analytics, Part of Accenture (PhD 2018)
Andrew Nuttall
Skylo (PhD 2018)
Ashwyn Sam
Pacific Fusion (PhD 2026)
Gil Shohet
Astranis (PhD 2021)
Austin Sousa
Apple (PhD 2018)
Glenn Sugar
SpaceX (PhD 2019)
Travis Swenson
Aerospace Corp. (PhD 2018)
Ana Tarano
University of Miami (PhD 2020)
Paul Tarantino
Xona Space Systems (PhD 2018)
Ryan Volz
MIT Haystack (PhD 2014)
Jonathan Yee
Instrumental Inc. (PhD 2016)
Sean Young
Johns Hopkins APL (PhD 2021)