Faculty @ N-ACXIS Lab

Dr. Hiroyasu Tsukamoto is an Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the director of the N-ACXIS Laboratory (Nonlinear Autonomous Control, Exploration, Intelligence, and Systems). Prior to joining Illinois, he was a Postdoctoral Research Affiliate in Robotics at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), where he contributed to the Science-Infused Spacecraft Autonomy for Interstellar Object Exploration and Multi-Spacecraft Autonomy Technology Demonstration projects. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. in Space Engineering (Autonomous Robotics and Control) from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 2018 and 2023, respectively, advised by Prof. Soon-Jo Chung, and his B.S. degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Kyoto University, Japan, in 2017. He is the recipient of several awards, including the William F. Ballhaus Prize for the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in Space Engineering at Caltech, the Innovators Under 35 Japan Award from MIT Technology Review, and the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia – Class of 2025.