Director / Principal Investigator
Dr. Yashwanth Nakka
Assistant Professor, PhD · Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering · Georgia Institute of Technology
Dr. Nakka directs the AstroX Lab, developing autonomy for space systems operating in uncertain and extreme environments — on the Moon, in orbit, and beyond.
PhD Students
Rut Santana
Lunar Rover Navigation
Tanmay Dokania
Motion Planning & Control Under Uncertainty
Dario Tscholl
Perception-Driven Planning for Space Robots
Arna Bharadwaj
Autonomous Self-Aware Robots
Sachin Kelkar
Contact-Implicit Motion Planning & Control
MS Students
Ibrahim Alshayeb
Real-time Mapping & Segmentation
Amanda Saliba
Real-time Motion Planning Under Uncertainty
Undergraduate Students
Vincent Griffo
Sadhana Kumar
Visruth Reddy
Hridai Ambati
Rio Futagawa
Umesh Krishna Ponuganti
Kurt Gugelev
Ananya Padmanabhan
Amani Siddiqui
Cooper DelGandio
Visiting Researchers
Minduli Wijayatunga
PhD Candidate in Astrodynamics, University of Auckland (2021–2024). Amelia Earhart Fellow 2023. B.Eng (Aeronautical / Space) & BSc (Physics & Mathematics), University of Sydney 2020.
Alumni
As students and researchers graduate or move on, they will be listed here with their degrees and current positions.