Mentors

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Sean Phillips

Sean Phillips is a Research Mechanical Engineer, Deputy Technical Advisory and Program Lead for the Local Intelligent Networked Collaborative Systems (LINCS) Lab in the Space Control Branch at the Air Force Research Laboratory. He received his Ph.D in the Department of Computer Engineering at the University of California – Santa Cruz in 2018. He received his B.S. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering specializing in Dynamics and Controls from the University of Arizona in 2011 and 2013, respectively. In 2009, he joined the Hybrid Dynamics and Controls Lab at UA where he received a NASA Space Grant in 2010. In 2010, he received an Undergraduate Research Grant from the University of Arizona Honors College. He interned as a Space Scholar at the Air Force Research Laboratory in Albuquerque N.M during the summers of 2011, 2012 and 2017. In 2014, he joined the Hybrid Systems Laboratory at the University of California, Santa Cruz. In 2017, he received the Jack Baskin and Peggy Downes-Baskin Fellowship for his research on autonomous networked systems from the Baskin School of Engineering at the University of California Santa Cruz. He is currently interested in modeling, robust stability, observer design, decision logic, information fusion, perception, safety and simulations for distributed collaborative autonomous multiagent systems applied to aerospace systems.


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