Aerospace Controls Laboratory

eelias36 [at] mit [dot] edu
31-236A

Education

• M.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT, 2026
• B.S. in Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Rochester, 2022
• B.A. in Physics, University of Rochester, 2022
• B.A. in Economics, University of Rochester, 2022

Research Interests

• Multi-Agent State Estimation
• Spacecraft Formation Flight

Awards

• Draper Scholar,

Projects

Illumination-Robust Navigation around Unknown Space Objects using Multispectral Imagery
Eric Elias, 2026

We fuse visible and thermal camera imagery to provide illumination-robust localization around an unknown space object.