ABOUT US
We believe in a future where the movement of goods, people, and services is re-defined in the sky. In partnership with NASA, we are building AI-enabled traffic management software for the future airspace. Our team consists of experienced researchers, engineers and industry experts with a passion for innovation and aerospace.
Meet the Team
Dedication. Expertise. Passion.
Our multidisciplinary team, including our faculty mentors, has more than 60 years of experience in machine learning, robotics, aerospace, human factors, and hardware.
Mehrnaz Sabet
Team Lead
Mehrnaz is a PhD Candidate at Cornell University leading research on human-drone systems. her work has received multiple awards and grants from NASA, NSF, and Cornell Engineering. At Project Orion, she works hand in hand with the team and leads research and development efforts to ensure project success.
Aaron Babu
Aaron is a Computer Science undergraduate at Cornell University passionate about machine learning and robotics. At Project Orion, he contributes to developing complex simulation environments for training machine-learning models.
Marcus Lee
Marcus is a Computer Science undergraduate at Cornell University passionate about work in machine learning, computer vision, robotics, and software engineering. At Project Orion, he contributes to advancing new machine-learning models.
Joshua Park
Josh is an Information Science undergraduate at Cornell University passionate about data science. At Project Orion, he contributes to model profiling and conducts experiments for baseline testing.
Francis Pham
Francis is an ECE undergraduate at Cornell University passionate about new hardware architectures. At Project Orion, he contributes to increasing the memory efficiency of our machine-learning models.
Owen Sorber
Owen is a Computer Science master's student at Cornell University passionate about building software to solve problems in robotics and aerospace. At Project Orion, he contributes to implementing and testing new Reinforcement Learning algorithms.
Roopak Srinivasan
Roopak is a Computer Science master's student at Cornell University passionate about the intersection of technology and practical innovation. At Project Orion, he contributes to building data engine pipelines to test machine learning models in new simulation environments.
Austin Zhao
Austin is a Computer Science undergraduate at Cornell University passionate about the intersection of computer science and the physical world. At Project Orion, he contributes to deploying training pipelines to the cloud and optimizing our compute workload.
Sanjiban Choudhury
Faculty mentor
Sanjiban is an Assistant Professor at Cornell Computer Science and a Research Scientist at Aurora Innovation. His research is on advancing imitation learning and decision making in robotics.
Susan Fussell
Faculty mentor
Susan is a Professor at Cornell Information Science known for her years of contributions to the fields of human-computer interaction and computer-supported cooperative work.