Evan was a PhD student from Morristown, New Jersey with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Brown University and an M.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has interned at 3 NASA centers (NASA Langley, NASA Ames, and JPL) and has been a Draper Labs Fellow since 2018. His research focuses on guidance algorithm development for drag-modulated aerocapture. He defended his PhD in summer 2021.