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A growing research group working across astrodynamics, optimal guidance and control, space situational awareness, and scientific machine learning.

Andrea D’Ambrosio

Lab director

Andrea D’Ambrosio, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor · Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

Dr. D’Ambrosio is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of South Florida. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Space Systems Engineering Laboratory at the University of Arizona and in the Astrodynamics, Robotics, and Controls Laboratory at MIT.

He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in aerospace and space engineering and a Ph.D. in Astronomy, Astrophysics, and Space Science from Sapienza University of Rome. His work spans optimal guidance and control, orbit determination, space-object behavioral analysis, machine-learning controller certification, and space-environment evolution.

He has authored more than 30 journal papers and 40 conference proceedings. Beyond aerospace, he holds a master’s degree in Classical Piano from Conservatorio Licinio Refice in Frosinone, Italy.

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