19 Sep 2024 : I am co-chairing the Positioning Technologies and Machine Learning session of the Navigation for Mass Market track at the Institute of Navigation (ION) GNSS+ 2024 conference. Thanks to Melania Susi for putting together this exciting research track.
23 Aug 2024 : I won the Postdoc Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) Champion Award at Stanford. Thank you to the Stanford Office of Postdoctoral Affairs for this recognition.
12 Aug 2024 : I started as a research engineer in the Space Exploration Analysis Lab (SEAL) at Georgia Tech!
25 Apr 2024 : I gave an invited Research Seminar talk at the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Purdue University about my work "Toward the Next Generation of GPS: Navigation Security, New Codes, and Lunar Exploration."
11 Apr 2024 : We had 2 papers accepted for publication in the Institute of Navigation (ION) GNSS+ 2024 conference, regarding our work on single-satellite Doppler-based lunar positioning and fast, large-scale spreading code design.
11 Mar 2024 : I gave an invited Research Seminar talk at the Kevin T. Crofton Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering at Virginia Tech about my work "Toward the Next Generation of GPS: Navigation Security, New Codes, and Lunar Exploration."
14 Feb 2024 : I gave an invited Research Seminar talk at the Aeronautics and Astronautics Department at the University of Washington about my work "Toward the Next Generation of GPS: Navigation Security, New Codes, and Lunar Exploration."
6 Feb 2024 : I gave an invited Research Seminar talk at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Washington about my work "Toward the Next Generation of GPS: Navigation Security, New Codes, and Lunar Exploration."
23 Oct 2023 : Our paper on single-satellite lunar navigation for the NASA Endurance mission was accepted for publication in IEEE Aerospace 2024 conference.
1 Oct 2023 : I started as a postdoctoral scholar in the Navigation and Autonomous Vehicles Lab (NAV Lab) at Stanford.
29 Sep 2023 : I was selected to paticipate in the 2023 Future Leaders in Aerospace Symposium at MIT.
28 Sep 2023 : I successfully graduated with my PhD! My dissertation is titled "Towards the next generation of GPS signals: New codes and navigation security." Check out the thesis here.
8 Sep 2023 : I've been invited to give a talk at Aerospace's UPLIFT program.
23 Jun 2023 : Our paper on using stochastic reachability analysis for GPS spoofing detection with Chimera was accepted for publication in NAVIGATION: Journal of the Institute of Navigation.
23 Jun 2023 : I was selected to participate in the NextProf Nexus 2023 workshop at Georgia Tech.
18 Jun 2023 : I won the Outstanding Course Assistant Award from Stanford's AIAA student branch.
7 Jun 2023 : Our paper on designing a satellite constellation for lunar navigation and communication was accepted for publication in NAVIGATION: Journal of the Institute of Navigation.
24 May 2023 : I successfully defended my PhD! Check out the defense video presentation here.
8 May 2023 : Our paper on analyzing case studies for a lunar navigation satellite system with GPS time-transfer was accepted for publication in NAVIGATION: Journal of the Institute of Navigation.
21 Apr 2023 : I won the Community Impact Award from the Stanford Alumni Association for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) leadership and service in the School of Engineering.
13 Apr 2023 : We had two papers accepted for conference proceedings at the Institute of Navigation (ION) GNSS+ 2023 conference.
2 Mar 2023 : Our paper on spoofing-resilient factor graph optimization using LiDAR and Chimera was accepted at the IEEE/ION Position, Location and Navigation Symposium (PLANS) 2023. This work was also recommended for the Walter Fried Award for Best Paper.
13 Feb 2023 : Our paper on spreading code optimization via mixed-integer quadratic programming was accepted at the IEEE Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2023.
5 Dec 2022 : Our work on designing a lunar navigation constellation using GPS time-transfer was published in the Inside GNSS magazine as a cover page article.
1 Nov 2022 : I am co-chairing the Land-Based Applications session of the Autonomous and Safety Critical Applications track at the Institute of Navigation (ION) GNSS+ 2023 conference.
23 Sep 2022 : We won Best Presentation of the Session for our work on designing a lunar navigation and communication constellation at the Institute of Navigation (ION) GNSS+ 2022 conference. Check out the paper here.
31 May 2022 : Our paper on performing GPS time-transfer for a lunar navigation satellite system was accepted for publication in NAVIGATION: Journal of the Institute of Navigation.
16 May 2022 : I received the Centennial Teaching Assistant Award from Stanford's School of Enginering.
18 Apr 2022 : We had three papers accepted at the Institute of Navigation (ION) GNSS+ 2022 conference.
19 Nov 2021 : Our paper on designing low-correlation GPS codes using a natural evolution strategy was accepted for publication in NAVIGATION: Journal of the Institute of Navigation.
6 Nov 2021 : I am co-chairing the Trends in Future Satellite Navigation Technology, System and Services session at the Institute of Navigation (ION) GNSS+ 2022 conference.
29 Oct 2021 : Our paper on analyzing case studies for designing a lunar navigation satellite system was accepted at the Institute of Navigation (ION) International Technical Meeting (ITM) 2022. Check out the paper here.
24 Sep 2021 : We won Best Presentation of the Session for our work on performing GPS time-transfer for a lunar navigation satellite system at the Institute of Navigation (ION) GNSS+ 2021 conference. Check out the paper here.
16 Aug 2021 : I gave an invited talk about my research on secure civilian GPS navigation and spreading code design at the Air Force Research Lab, Kirtland Space Force Base.
12 Apr 2021 : I received the Amelia Earhart fellowship! This fellowship is awarded by Zonta International to top women doctoral students in Aerospace research fields.
12 Apr 2021 : We had two papers accepted at the Institute of Navigation (ION) GNSS+ 2021 conference.
25 Sep 2020 : I won Best Presentation of the Session for my work on designing low-correlation spreading codes using a policy gradient algorithm at the Institute of Navigation (ION) GNSS+ 2020 conference. Check out the paper and presentation video.
17 Apr 2020 : Our paper on spreding code design using reinforcement learning was accepted at the Institute of Navigation (ION) GNSS+ 2020 conference.
1 Dec 2019 : Our paper on performing GPS timing authentication for the U.S. power grid using a hierarchical network was accepted for publication in NAVIGATION: Journal of the Institute of Navigation.
23 Sep 2019 : I started my Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University.
20 Sep 2019 : I won Best Presentation of the Session for my work on designing low auto- and cross-correlation GPS spreading codes with a multi-objective genetic algorithm at the Institute of Navigation (ION) GNSS+ 2019 conference. Check out the paper.
5 Aug 2019 : I received my Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois and Urbana-Champaign, with my thesis on "GPS spoofing detection for the power grid network via a multi-receiver hierarchical architecture."
19 Apr 2019 : Our paper on low-correlation GPS spreding code design was accepted at the Institute of Navigation (ION) GNSS+ 2019 conference.
9 Apr 2019 : I received both the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship and the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship! I decided to go with the NSF fellowship.
28 Mar 2019 : I gave an invited talk with Ramya at the IEEE Smart Grid Webinar on our hierachical networked GPS timing authentication strategy for the U.S. power grid. Check out the related paper here.
5 Feb 2019 : I gave an invited talk with Ramya at the Joint ITI | CIRI | CREDC Seminar on our hierachical networked GPS timing authentication strategy for the U.S. power grid. Check out the related paper here.
7 Nov 2018 : I gave an invited talk at the Stanford Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Symposium on our hierarchical networked GPS timing authentication strategy for the U.S. power grid. Check out the related paper here.
13 Apr 2018 : Our paper on designing a hierarchical network approach for our GPS timing authentication strategy within the U.S. power grid was accepted at the Institute of Navigation (ION) GNSS+ 2018 conference.
2 Mar 2018 : Our paper on GPS timing authentication for the U.S. power grid was accepted at the IEEE/ION Position, Location and Navigation Symposium (PLANS) 2018.