Connor Noyes
Guidance And Control Engineer at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolConnor Noyes is a Guidance and Control Engineer at NASA JPL with 11 years of aerospace experience focused on Mars entry, descent, and ascent systems for the Mars Sample Return campaign. He builds high-fidelity simulations, runs Monte Carlo and sensitivity analyses to quantify system uncertainty, and translates results into design and guidance recommendations. Connor has applied fuel-optimal, multi-phase trajectory planning and closed-loop guidance for supersonic retropropulsion studies and packaged modern data-science techniques into tools used across JPL. He blends rigorous academic training (BS/MS and PhD work in aerospace engineering) with hands-on mission engineering, and he regularly teaches colleagues how to apply advanced simulation and analysis methods. An under-the-radar strength is his ability to bridge flight dynamics, numerical optimization, and software delivery to make complex research directly usable in engineering decisions.
11 years of coding experience
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis ObispoDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at University of California, Irvine
Github Skills (9)
sensitivity-analysis8
probability-distribution8
uncertainty8
uncertainty-quantification8
aerospace8
toolbox7
simulation7
statistics7
python5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
CDNoyes/EDL-Py
Aug 2016 - Jun 2021
Contributions:546 commits, 344 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 10 months
CDNoyes/Research
Jan 2015 - Jun 2021
Contributions:306 commits, 2 PRs, 151 pushes in 6 years 5 months
simulationengineeringresearch-engineeringaerospace-engineeringaerospace
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