On June 18th, 2026 Colby Merrill successfully defended their B exam, completing the requirements for the PhD program. You can see a recording of their talk below.
Congratulations Dr. Genszler!
On December 19th, 2025 Grace Genszler successfully defended her B exam, completing the requirements for her PhD program. You can see a recording of her talk below.
JASS Article Published
Event-Based Sensor Noise Modeling for Space-Based Space Domain Awareness, led by Dr. Rachel Oliver, has been published in the Journal of Astronautical Sciences. This work presents the most detailed, physics-based, end-to-end model for event-based vision sensors observing space objects created
Congratulations Dr. Li!
On July 14th, 2025 Duan Li successfully defended her B exam, completing the requirements for her PhD program. You can see a recording of her talk below.
Congratulations to Colby Merrill on Passing their A Exam
Colby Merrill successfully passed their A exam on 7/30/2024, marking the entrance into the dissertation phase of their degree program. A recording of their talk can be viewed below.
Congratulations to Dr. Oliver!
On July 25th, 2024 Rachel Oliver successfully defended her B exam, completing the requirements for her PhD program. You can see a recording of her talk below.
Congratulations to Sachin Kelkar!
Sachin Kelkar successfully defended his M exam, completing the requirements for his master’s degree. You can see his presentation below.
Congratulations to Dr. Kulik!
On May 7, 2024 Jackson Kulik successfully defended his B exam, completing the requirements for his PhD program. You can see a recording of his talk below.
On Cython
Following up on our ‘compiling Python’ session, we recently did a quick tutorial on Cython. The materials for the tutorial are located here: https://github.com/dsavransky/cython_demo and you can watch the recording, below.
We’re Not Slacking Off, We’re Compiling Python
At a recent group meeting, we discussed how to compile the Python/OpenBLAS/Numpy toolchain from scratch (and why you might wish to do such a thing). See the recording, below, and the associated notes here: https://gist.github.com/dsavransky/a0e15fb3cf2dc40fbed9db1d2b481deb