Curriculum Vitae

Written By Islam Hussein

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Experience Synopsis

With more than twenty years of experience in guidance, navigation and control (GN&C), space systems autonomy, Space Domain Awareness (SDA), and Multi-Domain Command and Control (MDC2), Dr. Hussein’s career centers around technology road-mapping and maturation, and working with teams that provide both engineering, and research and development solutions focusing on single- and multiple-satellite formation, swarm, and constellation autonomous control and orchestration, SDA, satellite risk assessment and mitigation, and MDC2. Underlying these applications are the disciplines of decision and game theories, data and information fusion, multi-hypothesis tracking, artificial intelligence and machine learning, and the integration of these disciplines with classical control theory, to generate solutions that are distributed, scalable, adaptive, resilient, safe, and trusted.

Education

  • PhD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2005, Aerospace Engineering

  • MS, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2002, Aerospace Engineering

  • MS, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2002, Applied Mathematics

  • BS, American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt, 2000, Mechanical Engineering

Professional Societies and Memberships

  • National Chair for the American Astronautical Society Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference, 2017-present

  • Associate Editor, Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, 2019-2023

  • Technical Chair of the 2019 American Astronautical Society Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, Portland, ME

  • Associate Editor for the 2010 and 2011 American Control Conference

  • Session chair/organizer, American Control Conference, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008

  • Reviewer for the National Science Foundation and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research

  • Judge, Best Student Paper Award Panel, 2007 IEEE Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

  • Session co-chair, Aerospace Applications II, 2005 IEEE Conference on Control Applications

  • Member of American Astronautical Society, IEEE, AIAA, ASME

Brief Professional History

  • Director of Research and Development – Trusted Space, Inc., Washington, DC (8/2021–present)

  • Vice President – Space Systems, Thornton Tomasetti, Inc., Washington, DC (10/2019–8/2021)

  • Senior R&D Scientist, L3Harris Applied Defense Solutions, Herndon, VA (7/2013–10/2019)​

  • National Academy of Sciences Senior Faculty Fellow, Air Force Research Laboratory, Albuquerque, NM (7/2011–7/2013)​

  • Research Associate Professor, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (10/2011–7/2013)

  • Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA (7/2006 – 5/2012)

  • ASEE Summer Faculty Fellow, Space Vehicles Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Albuquerque, NM (5/2009–8/2009, 5/2010–8/2010)

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate, Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL (8/2005–5/2006)

  • Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (5/2005–8/2005)

  • Graduate Student Research Assistant, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (MI, 9/2000–4/2005)

  • Software Engineer Intern, MSC.Software Corporation, Ann Arbor, MI (8/2002– 12/2002, 4/2004–8/2004)

Skills and Proficiencies

General:

  • Research and development, innovation, technology road-mapping, business development, and entrepreneurship

  • Leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning tools, combined with classical control and formal approaches, for the development of trusted autonomy for aerospace systems

  • Development of near-real-time software solutions for complex situational awareness problem sets using analytical and computational multi-hypothesis techniques that enable the handling of heterogonous and very large volume datasets

  • Computer Skills: Java, Scala, Linux, UNIX, Microsoft & Mac OS, Matlab, Simulink, Easy5, Adams, Fortran

  • Languages: Fluent in English, native Arabic speaker, and basic command of French

Publications

Books

  1. Y. Wang and I. Hussein. Search and Classification using Multiple Autonomous Vehicles: Decision-Making and Sensor Management. Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, Springer, 2012.

Journal Publications

  1. I. I. Hussein, D. J. Scheeres and D. C. Hyland, “Interferometric Observatories in Earth Orbit,” Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 27(2): 297-301, 2004.

  2. I.I. Hussein and D.J. Scheeres. 2005, “Effects of Orbit Variations and J2 Perturbations on a Class of Earth-Orbiting Interferometric Observatories,” The Journal of the Astronautical Sciences, 53(2): 147-166, 2005.

  3. I. I. Hussein, D. J. Scheeres and D. C. Hyland, “Optimal Formation Design for Imaging and Fuel Usage,” Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 30(5): 1511-1515, 2007.

  4. I.I. Hussein, D. J. Scheeres, A.M. Bloch, D. C. Hyland, and N. H. McClamroch, “Optimal Motion Planning for Dual-Spacecraft Interferometry,” IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 43(2): 723 – 737, 2007.

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