Matthew Hunter

Matthew Hunter is a Ph.D. student in the Space Rendezvous Laboratory. He “got out” of Georgia Tech with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, where he received the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering Outstanding Scholar Award, and received a Master of Science in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford University. He has also interned at a variety of companies in the space and defense industry, including NASA Goddard, Raytheon Technologies, and Bell. Broadly, Matthew's research focuses on computationally efficient, provably optimal control through reachable set theory. Matthew is leveraging this methodology to develop closed-form differential drag-propulsive maneuver planning for the Space Weather Atmospheric Multiscale EXperiment (SWARM-EX), to reduce the delta-v cost of large time-constrained swarm reconfigurations.