Vishala Arya

Education

PhD, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2022
MS,  Department of Aerospace Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2018
BS, Birla Institute of Technology, Pilani, India, 2014

Professional Experience

Starting Jan 2025, Assistant Professor, Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder
2022 - 2024, Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
2016 - 2022, Graduate Student Assistant, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Texas A&M University

Awards (selected)

NASA Honors award for GRACE-FO team (2024)
Winning Team 12th International Global Trajectory Optimization Competition (GTOC) (2023)
Breakwell award at AAS Space Flight Mechanics Conference for the best paper (2021)
AERO Graduate Excellence Fellowship, Texas A&M University (2020)
AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference paper presentation award (2019)
HEEP Graduate Fellowship by Hagler Institute for Advanced Study (2017)
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Scholarship, Germany (2014)

Research Interests

Astrodynamics
Robust and Autonomous Guidance
Navigation and Control
Multidisciplinary design optimization of space systems
Cooperative control of multi agent space systems