Siddarth Kaki
Navigation Discipline Engineer
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSiddarth Kaki is a Navigation Discipline Engineer at NASA Johnson Space Center with 11 years of experience specializing in guidance, navigation, and control, backed by a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin. His career blends deep academic research—as an NSF Graduate Research Fellow—with hands-on mission work at JPL on Mars, Europa, and lunar lander GNC and operations. At JSC he transitioned from optical navigation to broader navigation discipline responsibilities, applying sensor fusion, trajectory estimation, and mission-focused algorithms to real flight scenarios. Siddarth is motivated by interdisciplinary problems that advance exploration and societal benefit, and he brings a proven track record of translating research into operational capability. An understated strength is his longevity across NASA centers and academia, giving him rare end-to-end perspective from early research to mission implementation.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at The University of Texas at AustinHigh School, High School at Cedar Ridge High School
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45reputation
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Github Skills (11)
pose9
homography9
controller7
cpp7
gesture6
overlay6
awk6
bash6
paint6
android-fragments6
android6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
radionavlab/utmg-android-interface
Mar 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:167 commits, 4 PRs, 86 pushes in 7 months
controllergamegamesquadcoptertrajectory
siddarthkaki/pose_terrier
Jun 2019 - Mar 2023
Vision-Based Relative Pose Estimator in C++
Contributions:207 commits, 15 PRs, 77 pushes in 3 years 8 months
cpprelativehomographyvisionpose
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