• Assistant Professor, Space Engineering
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Educational Background

  • B.S., Aerospace and Ocean Engineering, Virginia Tech - 2019
  • Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering, University of Texas at Austin - 2025

Research Interests

    • Information-driven tasking and planning under uncertainty
    • Spacecraft guidance, navigation, and control
    • Convex optimization for spacecraft trajectory design
    • Multi-target, multi-sensor tracking and information fusion
    • Machine learning for astronomical data analysis

Selected Publications

  • Wolf, T.N. and Jones, B.A., “Information-Driven Search and Track of Novel Space Objects,” Journal of the Astronautical Sciences, Vol. 72, No. 4, Article 36, 2025.
  • Wolf, T.N., Jones, B.A., and Bowler, B.P., “Direct Exoplanet Detection using Convolutional Image Reconstruction (ConStruct): A New Algorithm for Post-processing High-contrast Images,” The Astronomical Journal, Vol. 167, No. 3, Article 92, 2024.