Sara Susca is currently a researcher in the Computer Vision for Surface Applications at JPL. Her current work focuses on sensor fusion and state estimation for both airborne and ground vehicles, and sub-arcsecond pointing stability of balloon borne telescopes.
Dr. Susca earned her PhD in the control and dynamical systems group at UC Santa Barbara.
* PhD in Electrical Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara, 2007
* MS in Electrical Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara, 2005
* Laurea in Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, 2002
* Researcher in JPL's Computer Vision for Surface Applications, 12/2010 to present.
* Scientist in the Nav team at Honeywell, 2008 to 2010.
* Intern in the Nav group at Honeywell, summers of 2006 and 2007
* Visiting scholar at BioServe Space Technologies, 2001-2002
* state estimation
* fine pointing control algorithms