Marco Pavone Appointed to Aero/Astro Faculty

Marco Pavone has joined the Aero/Astro faculty. Dr. Pavone comes to Stanford from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) at the California Institute of Technology, where he was a research technologist within the Advanced Robotic Controls Group. His main research interests lie in the area of design, control, and optimization of cyber-physical systems, with a focus on planetary robots, multi-robot networks, and large-scale transportation systems. He is currently leading a project for the development of robotic platforms for the exploration of small solar system bodies and is investigating new paradigms for future urban mobility systems that leverage robotics and automation. On the flight-project side, Dr. Pavone worked at JPL on the end-to-end optimization of the mission architecture for the Mars sample return mission. Dr. Pavone is a research affiliate of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and a NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Fellow.

Dr. Pavone received his Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his Diploma in Computer Engineering from the Scuola Superiore of Catania, Italy, and his Laurea (the equivalent of B.S. and M.S. degrees) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Catania, Italy.