People

Director

Koki Ho
kokiho@gatech.edu
Dutton-Ducoffe Professor (Associate Professor)
Aerospace Engineering
 
 

Current Members

PhD. Candidates/Students

Yuri Shimane
yshimane3@gatech.edu		 Masafumi Isaji
masafumi.isaji@gatech.edu
Nicholas Gollins
ngollins3@gatech.edu
Malav Patel
mpatel636@gatech.edu
Logan Feld
lfeld3@gatech.edu
 
 Polina  Verkhovodova  pverkhovodova3@gatech.edu
Seungyeop Han
novelhan@gatech.edu		 Kayla Garoust
kgaroust3@gatech.edu
Tomohiro Sasaki
tomohiro.sasaki@gatech.edu
(co-advised by Dr. Lightsey)
Euihyeon Choi
ehchoi@gatech.edu
 

Master’s Students

Zachary Grieser
zgrieser3@gatech.edu
Jae Yeon Kim
jkim4109@gatech.edu
 
 

Alumni

Since our group was founded in Jan. 2016 (initially at the University of Illinois; moved to Georgia Tech in 2019), the following PostDoc, Ph.D., and M.S. students have completed their studies with us. In addition to those listed here, many other undergraduate students have worked with us. It has been a pleasure to work with you all!

Former Group Members who joined Academia

  • Byeong-Un Jo, Postdoc ’23; currently an Assistant Professor at Sejong University, Korea.
  • Hang Woon Lee, M.S. ’18, Ph.D. ’22, (NSF Graduate Research Fellow); currently an Assistant Professor at West Virginia University.
  • Hao Chen, M.S. ’16, Ph.D. ’21, PostDoc ’21; currently an Assistant Professor at the Stevens Institute of Technology.
  • Katherine Skinner, Postdoc ’20; currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan.

In addition, Ryne Beeson, a former Graduate Research Assistant who worked with Prof. Ho at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign after the retirement of his Advisor (Prof. N Sri Namachchivaya), is currently an Assistant Professor at Princeton University.

Former Group Members who joined Industry

The employers of the SSOG alumni include NASA Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL), Boeing, Airbus, Northrop Grumman, Blue Origin, Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), Collins Aerospace, CU Aerospace, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory, etc.

Ph.D.

  • Kento Tomita, Ph.D., ’24.
  • Andrew Maxwell, Ph.D., ’23.
  • Bindu Jagannatha, Ph.D. ’18.

M.S.

  • Julia Tepper, M.S. ’23 (Thesis).
  • Joshua Tysor, M.S. ’22 (Non-Thesis; Special Problem).
  • Youssof Fassi, M.S. ’22 (Non-Thesis; Special Problem).
  • Philippe Clifton, M.S. ’21 (Non-Thesis; Special Problem).
  • Brian Hardy, M.S. ’20 (Thesis).
  • Jeffrey Perez, M.S. ’19 (Thesis).
  • Tiago Silva, M.S. ’19 (Thesis).
  • Pauline Jakob, M.S. ’18 (Thesis).
  • Mihir Patel, M.S. ’18 (Thesis).
  • Patrick Sears, M.S. ’18 (Thesis).
  • Domenico Teodonio, M.S. ’18 (Thesis), Politecnico di Torino (co-advised by Prof. Sabrina Corpino), thesis completed at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
  • Thibaut Wenger, M.S. ’17 (Thesis).

Former Group Members who continued for Advanced Degrees or PostDocs

  • Tristan Sarton Du Jonchay, M.S. ’17, Ph.D., ’22.
  • Onalli Gunasekara, M.S. ’22 (Non-Thesis; Special Problem; DoD NDSEG Fellow).
  • Thomas Claudet, M.S. ’22 (Thesis).
  • Jean-Baptiste Bouvier, M.S. ’18 (Thesis).
  • Alen Envieh Golpashin, M.S. ’18 (Thesis) (co-advised by Prof. N Sri Namachchivaya).