Giusy Falcone

Giusy Falcone is a Ph.D. graduate in the Aerospace Engineering Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and she works in the Putnam Research Group under the guidance of Prof. Zachary R. Putnam. She will join the Robotic Exploration Lab in The Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University as Postdoctoral Fellow in June 2022, under the direction of Prof. Zachary Manchester.

Her expertise lies in hypersonic and space systems; guidance, navigation, and control; mission design; reinforcement learning; and autonomous systems. Her research explores innovative techniques to enable low-cost, autonomous space missions. Specifically, her Ph.D. dissertation focused on improving planetary aerobraking through autonomous guidance and decision-making techniques. She holds a B.S. and M.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Pisa (Italy). Giusy is one of the recipients of the Mavis Future Faculty Fellowship, the Aerospace Engineering Alumni Advisory Board Fellowship, Robert Beatty Fellowship, and the Graduate Student Service Award.