- Associate Professor, Aerospace Engineering
- Associate Department Head for Theoretical and Computational Research, Aerospace Engineering
- Phone: 979-845-1640
- Email: demars@tamu.edu
- Office: HRBB 741C
Educational Background
- Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin - 2010
- M.S.E., Aerospace Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin - 2007
- B.S., Aerospace Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin - 2004
Research Interests
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- Space situational awareness
- Navigation, guidance, and control
- Bayesian filtering
- Information theory
- Multitarget tracking
Awards & Honors
- 2017: AIAA St. Louis Section Young Professional Award
- 2016: Faculty Research Award (Missouri S&T)
- 2015-2016: Outstanding Teaching Award (Missouri S&T)
- 2014: NASA Advanced Exploration Systems Innovation Award
Selected Publications
- James S. McCabe and Kyle J. DeMars, “Anonymous Feature-Based Terrain Relative Navigation,” Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics (to appear).
- Renato Zanetti and Kyle J. DeMars, “Fully Multiplicative Unscented Kalman Filter for Attitude Estimation,” Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics 41.5 (2018), pp. 1181–1187, doi: 10.2514/1.G003221.
- James S. McCabe and Kyle J. DeMars, “Considering Uncertain Parameters in Single-Target and Multitarget Filtering,” Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics 40.9 (2017), pp. 2138–2150, doi: 10.2514/1.G002785.
- Jacob E. Darling and Kyle J. DeMars, “Minimization of the Kullback-Leibler Divergence for Nonlinear Estimation,” Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics 40.7 (2017), pp. 1739–1748, doi: 10.2514/1.G002282.
- K. DeMars and M. Gualdoni, “Information-Theoretic Approaches to Space Object Collision,” Journal of the British Interplanetary Society 70.2-4 (2017), pp. 85–97.