Contact Information

• Name: Emily Craparo
• Office: available upon request
• Phone: available upon request
• Cell: available upon request
• Email: emily1[at]mit[dot]edu

Education

• Candidate for doctorate in Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, expected August 2008
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology: S.M. (2004) Aeronautics and Astronautics
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology: S.B. (2002) Aerospace Engineering with Information Technology

Research Interests

• Estimation and control under communication constraints
• Autonomous systems

Selected Publications and Presentations

1. "Simultaneous Placement and Assignment for Exploration in Mobile Backbone Networks," Conference on Decision and Control 2008, submitted.
2. "Optimization of Mobile Backbone Networks: Improved Algorithms and Approximation," American Control Conference 2008.
3. "Cooperative Sensing in Mobile Backbone Networks," to be presented at Sensors 2008: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications.
4. "Throughput Optimization in Mobile Backbone Networks," to be presented at the 2008 SIAM Conference on Optimization.
5. "Decentralized Estimation under Communication Constraints," AIAA Guidance Navigation and Control Conference Proceedings 2008.
6. "Natural Language Processing in the Control of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles," AIAA Guidance Navigation and Control Conference Proceedings.
7. "Natural Language Processing for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Guidance Interfaces," S.M. thesis, 2004
8. "Natural Language Interfaces in Control of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles," In Theory and Algorithms for Cooperative Systems, World Scientific, 2003.
9. "A Micro-Sized Ornithopter Wing Design," AIAA Northeast Regional Student Conference, 2002 and AIAA National Conference, 2003.
10. "Evaluation of Scanning Patterns for Deep Space Network Antenna Control," IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, 2001

Selected Awards

• NSF Graduate Fellowship
• NDSEG Graduate Fellowship
• MIT Presidential Fellowship (offered)
• Stanford Graduate Fellowship (offered)
• Massachusetts Space Grant Consortium Fellowship (offered)
• Zonta International Amelia Earhart Fellowship (two-time winner)
• Association of MIT Alumnae Award 2002 (given to top three graduating women at MIT)
• Best paper in AIAA Northeast Regional Student Conference, 2002
• Accepted to NASA Academy, 2001
• NASA Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow, 2001 (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
• AIAA Northwest Florida Section Student Achievement Award (two-time winner)
• Leaders for Manufacturing Award (2002)
• Commander Lewis E. Erdner Memorial Scholarship (awarded by the American Society of Naval Engineers)
• Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship
• National Merit Scholarship

Current and Past Society Memberships and Activities

• Tau Beta Pi
• Phi Beta Kappa
• Sigma Xi
• Sigma Gamma Tau
• American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
• Graduate Association of Aeronautics and Astronautics
• MIT Symphony Orchestra
• MIT Chamber Music Society
• MIT Varsity Crew
• MIT Rowing Club/MIT Sloan Crew
• Union Boat Club
• East Coast Aero Club (private pilot)
• MIT Student Art Association (ceramics)