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Career Highlights
Awards & Recognition
★National Academy of Engineering election 2026 (youngest MIT alum by a decade)
★AIAA F.E. Newbold Award 2023
★IEEE Control Systems Technology Award 2021
★National Academy of Engineering Gilbreth Lectureship 2017
★IEEE Spectrum Emerging Technology Award 2016
★National Space Society Space Pioneer Award 2016
★MIT Technology Review '35 Under 35' 2015
Notable Facts
→Senior Principal Mars Landing Engineer at SpaceX responsible for Starship entry and landing
→Led team that landed the first reusable Falcon 9 rocket in 2015
→Co-invented the G-FOLD algorithm for precision planetary landing
→52 published research papers with 3,656+ citations
→Previously worked at NASA JPL on Mars precision landing systems
→PhD from MIT, MEng from Cambridge University
→Youngest MIT alumnus elected to National Academy of Engineering
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