Hao Peng, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Director of ALPENGLOW Lab
Office: Lehman Building 266
Email: [email protected]
Aerospace Engineering Department
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, FL 32114

Dr. Hao Peng is an Assistant Professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University since August 2023. He is actively working on astrodynamics problems and machine learning applications in aerospace engineering problems. Their work emphasizes on the uniqueness and exclusiveness of the problems that are suitable and may only be solved by the machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) technology. Dr. Peng's research interests extend to orbital dynamics, attitude estimation and control, guidance, navigation, and control (GNC), and other operational challenges. He welcomes outstanding students and researchers to join ERAU in their pursuit of space exploration.

2011/09 – 2016/06: Ph.D of Engineering, Honors College of Beihang University and School of Astronautics, Beihang University

• Dissertation: Orbital Dynamics in the Elliptic Restricted Three-Body Problem for Deep Space Exploration (in Chinese; most chapters have been published on top journals in English)
• Supervisor: Prof. Shijie Xu

2007/09 – 2011/07: Bachelor of Engineering, Honors College of Beihang University and School of Astronautics, Beihang University

• Dissertation: Venus Exploring Trajectory Optimal Design using Variable-Specific-Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (in Chinese)
• Supervisor: Prof. Shijie Xu

2015/09 – 2015/12: Visiting Ph.D. student, Departament de Matemàtica Aplicada I, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain

• Work: Lunar polar orbit to Sun-Earth L2 point libration orbit transfer trajectory design and survey
• Supervisor: Prof. Josep J. Masdemont

2013/08 – 2013/08: Visiting Ph.D. student, Aerospace Engineering, Israel Institute of Technology (Technion), Haifa, Israel

• Program: Satellite Formation Flying Summer School
• Supervisor: Prof. Pini Gurfil

2021/09 – 2023/06: Research Associate, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Rutgers University, NJ

2016/08 – 2021/08: Postdoctoral Associate, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Rutgers University, NJ

• Acta Astronautica (AA)
• Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics (JGCD)
• The Journal of the Astronautical Sciences (JASS)
• Advances in Space Research (AISR)
• Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy (CELE)
• Astrophysics and Space Science (ASTR)
• Aerospace Science and Technology
• IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems (TAES)
• Astrodynamics
• Journal of Aerospace Engineering
• Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems (JATIS)
• IEEE Access

• SciTech (2020; 2023)