— Isaac Newton
Lab Director
Director, ASCLab · Assistant Professor, Aerospace Engineering · MANE · Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Prof. Singh's research advances cislunar Space Domain Awareness (SDA), multi-body astrodynamics, stochastic trajectory optimization, reduced-order modeling, and sensor fusion for autonomous planetary surface operations. He serves on the AIAA Astrodynamics Technical Committee and as RPI's USRA representative.
(518) 276-2625 · sandes5@rpi.edu · JEC 2040
Doctoral Students
In Progress
PhD Student · Fall '22 – Present
Kevin Alvarado
Research Interests
Astrodynamics, GN&C, and Mission Design. CR3BP trajectory design, low-thrust transfers with manifold seeding, reduced-order modal analysis for RSO maneuver detection.
NASA NYSG Fellow 2024
PhD Student · Fall '22 – Present
Ickbum Kim
Research Interests
Real-time Sensor Fusion, 3D Reconstruction, and Object Tracking. Multi-modal deep learning for terrain-relative navigation, GP point cloud denoising, Bayesian LiDAR-stereo fusion.
PhD Student · Fall '24 – Present
Scott Blender
Research Interests
ML for Space Mission Design, Autonomous GN&C, and Space Domain Awareness. Navigation-error-aware deep learning guidance for low-thrust cislunar transfers.
Internship: AstronetX · Su'26
PhD Student · Fall '26 – Present
Donald Perpetua
Research Interests
Space Domain Awareness, Low-Thrust Optimization, and Maneuver Estimation.
Graduate Students
In Progress
M.Eng. · Spring '26 – Spring '27
Tasmay Shah
Generating Quasi-Periodic Invariant Tori in the CR3BP.
Graduated
M.Eng. · Sp'25 & Sp'26
Nathan Nguyen
Navigation Filter Design for Multi-Modal Deep Learning TRN at the Lunar South Pole. 2nd place, 2026 GRS Poster Competition.
→ Orion GNC Engineer, NASA JSC
M.S. · F'25 – Sp'26
Joseph Mergen
A Systemic Approach to Cislunar SDA: Improved Fidelity, Adaptability, and Geometry.
→ Satellite Systems Engineer in Operations, Lockheed Martin
M.Eng. · F'25 – Sp'26
Ryan Rebetti
Filtering Methods for Multi-Observer State Estimation in the Earth-Moon CR3BP. 1st place, 2026 GRS Poster Competition.
→ Systems Engineer II, GNC, Raytheon
M.Eng. · F'25 – Sp'26
Ashe Mlodzienski
Data-Driven Characterization of Low-Thrust Gravity Assist Maneuvers.
M.Eng. · F'25 – Sp'26
William Weigand
FIM Optimization of Observer Constellations for Cislunar Space Domain Awareness.
M.Eng. · F'24 – Sp'25
Alex Diehl
Non-Spherical Secondary Augmented CR3BP dynamics and effects on periodic orbit families.
M.Eng. · F'24 – Sp'25
Calvin Chan
Hybrid Optimization for Constellation Design: Tracking RSO Behaviors in Cislunar Space.
→ GNC Aerospace Engineer, Vantor
M.Eng. · F'24 – Sp'25
Angelina Shayda
Leveraging Manifold Dynamics for Near-Heteroclinic Impulsive Transfers in Cislunar Space.
Undergraduate Research
In Progress
URP · Su'26
Aidan Stewart
Space Debris Inertia and Attitude Estimation via Optical Sensing.
URP · Su'26
Ava Hodorowski
Improved Synthetic Lunar Terrain Model for SDA Sensor Placement.
URP · Su'26
Tevin McLaren
Attitude Estimation of Irregularly Shaped Debris for Removal.
Visiting Researcher · Su'26
Katherine Henry
Characterizing Adversarial Attrition Rate for Periodic Orbit Families.
Graduated
URP · F'24, S'25, Su'25
Hadley Earl
Dynamics Reconstruction using Mode Decomposition for the three-body problem.
URP · Su'25, F'25
Aileen McAllister
Bi-Circular 4 Body Problem Periodic and Quasi-Periodic Structures.
URP · Su'24, F'24
Robert Quevedo
Gravity Field Quantification of Non-Spherical Space Objects.
URP · F'23, S'24
Benjamin Seaman
Extremal Bundles and Low-Thrust Reachability.
URP · S'24
Tom Deng
Stereo-Camera Calibration.
URP · F'23
Tony Kwon
Thermal-Optical Camera Calibration.
