Andrew Liounis
Navigation Engineer
Annapolis, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Liounis is a Navigation Engineer with over a decade of experience advancing spacecraft optical navigation, research, and flight software for NASA and national lunar initiatives. He is the author and maintainer of GIANT, an open-source image analysis and navigation toolkit used in high-profile missions such as OSIRIS-REx and adapted for onboard autonomous OpNav. At Goddard he led OpNav product design, supported IV&V operations, and won multiple engineering awards for contributions including the autonomous detection and tracking of particles ejected from Bennu. Now at Johns Hopkins APL, he continues to push the boundaries of navigation algorithms and on-board autonomy for challenging space missions. He combines strong academic training in aerospace engineering with hands-on operational experience, tooling authorship, and a knack for turning research code into flight-capable systems.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Aerospace Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Master of Science - MS Aerospace Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at West Virginia University
Github Skills (31)
cfs10
dataclasses8
signing8
argument-parsing7
argparse7
docker-registry7
opengl6
parsing6
parser6
python6
visualization6
image-processing6
vtk5
vispy5
command-line-parser5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nasa/giant
Sep 2021 - Aug 2022
Goddard Image Analysis and Navigation Tool
Contributions:5 releases, 21 commits, 4 PRs in 10 months
aliounis/giant_documentation
Sep 2021 - Jul 2023
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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