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brandon.jones@utexas.edu
512-471-4743
Office Location: ASE 3.230
Brandon Jones
Associate Professor
Charles Elmer Rowe Fellowship in Engineering
Department Research Areas:
Controls, Autonomy and Robotics
Orbital Mechanics
Education: Ph.D., University of Colorado Boulder
Research Interests:
- Orbit state and uncertainty propagation
- Multi-target, multi-sensor tracking and filtering
- Space situational awareness
- Satellite navigation
- Numerical methods and modeling
Dr. Jones conducts research on innovative approaches to enhance space situational awareness and satellite navigation across diverse orbit regimes, including near-Earth, cislunar and beyond. This research is accomplished through the integration of novel methodologies and algorithms at the intersection of astrodynamics, uncertainty quantification and information fusion. Jones is also the director of the Texas Spacecraft Laboratory and leads a team of students designing and implementing CubeSat-based guidance, navigation and control technology demonstration missions.
Jones joined the department as an assistant professor in the spring of 2016. Before moving to UT Austin, he was a research assistant professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he also received his Ph.D. He has been a contractor at the NASA Johnson Space Center and received undergraduate degrees in mathematics and physics from UT Austin. Jones is an associate fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions in Aerospace and Electronic Systems.
