People

The Planetary eXploration Lab (PXL) is a highly interdisciplinary research group integrating people from multiple fields and traditions, including Aerospace Engineering, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Mechanical Engineering, Molecular Biology, and many more.

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  • Christopher E. Carr

    ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

  • Jordan McKaig

    GRADUATE STUDENT (NASA FINESST FELLOW)

  • José Luís Ramírez Colón

    GRADUATE STUDENT (NSF GRADUATE FELLOW)

  • Cassius Tunis

    RISING GRADUATE STUDENT

  • Uttoreo Saha

    GRADUATE STUDENT

  • Nina Phelan

    UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHER

  • Snigdha Nellutla

    RESEARCH ENGINEER I / RISING GRADUATE STUDENT (STAMPS FELLOW)

  • Alfonso Lagares de Toledo

    GRADUATE STUDENT

  • Kathleen Ryan

    RESEARCH TECHNICIAN III

  • Kieran Choi-Slattery

    Kieran Choi-Slattery

    RISING GRADUATE STUDENT

  • Satya Pandya

    Satya Pandya

    GRADUATE STUDENT

  • Ziqin (Grace) Ni

    Ziqin (Grace) Ni

    POSTDOC & AE FELLOW

  • Molly Riebling

    GRADUATE STUDENT

    Airbus US Space and Defense

  • Alexander G. Rodriguez

    GRADUATE STUDENT (AE DEPT FELLOWSHIP)

  • Cathleen Bolger

    UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHER

  • Violet Oliver

    UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHER

  • Neil Shah

    UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHER

  • Jenna Sailor

    UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHER

  • Eri Yoshinaga

    VISITING GRADUATE STUDENT

    Institute of Science, Tokyo

  • Jacob Paras

    Rising Physics PhD Student (Yale), Computer Science and Physics (BS)

  • Isadora Bokas

    UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHER (FALL ‘25)

  • Riley Hogan

    UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHER (FALL ‘25)

Alumni & Rotation Students

  • Avik Banerjee

    Aerospace Engineering (MS)

    SPACEX

  • Sana Shuri

    Aerospace Engineering (BS)
    ASDL Graduate Student

  • Catherine Fang

    Aerospace Engineering (BS)
    Brooke Owens Fellow, Sally Ride Fellow

    MILLENNIUM SPACE SYSTEMS

  • Jami Milliken

    Aerospace Engineering (2025)

    BS/MS Student

  • Rachel Moore

    Research Scientist II

    INTEGRATED DNA TECHNOLOGIES

  • Alexander Chipps

    NSF Graduate Fellow, MIT Aero/Astro SM

  • Taylor Kate Boyett

    Graduate Student (AE 8900)

    CFD RESEARCH CORP

  • Emma Johnson

    Master’s in Aerospace Engineering

    COLLINS AEROSPACE

  • Sofia Pineda Radivojevic

    Undergraduate Student

    DELTA TECH OPS

  • Arunnganabathy Sankar

    Undergraduate Researcher

  • Jak Marshall

    Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering (BS)

  • Colin Burnett

    Aerospace Engineering (BS, MS), Geophysics Minor
    NORTHROP GRUMMAN

  • Mirza Samnani

    Mirza Samnani

    Aerospace Engineering (SM)

    JET PROPULSION LABORATORY

  • Madhukarthik Mohanalingam

    Master’s, Aerospace Engineering

    AEROSPACE CORPORATION

  • Prachi Panda

    UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHER

  • Milad Mozayyani

    Milad Mozayyani

    Research Scientist I

    EARTHLY DYNAMICS

  • Yana Charoenboonvivat

    NSF GRFP, MIT PhD Program

  • Stás Kowalski

    Physics (BS)

Paul Dixon

Martina Tehubijuluw

Jackson Larisch

Sam Lee

Kendall Saboda

Delson Faria Dasilva

Daniel Ledesma

Ethan Hammons

Katherine Hahn

Alex Choi

and many students & former staff at MIT/MGH