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Budapest, Hungary

Vilnius, Vilniaus, Lithuania

• Designed Attitude Determination and Control subsystem for small and micro (3-16U) satellites, focusing on actuator sizing, equipment selection, evaluating performance through Monte-Carlo campaigns and pointing error.
• Developed and tested Attitude and Orbit Control Systems (AOCS) simulator, implemented and tuned controllers (Sun avoidance, detumbling, magnetorquer-based 3-axis control), improved sensor and actuator modelling (system.
• Took part in code reviews, verification and validation of space systems

Estec, Noordwijk Am Zee, Netherlands

• Developed and verified a simulator for passive magnetic de-tumbling of non-operational satellites, co-published article “Passive Rate Dumping of Non-Operational Satellites in Low Earth Orbit to Enable Active Debris.
• Developed and tested Attitude and Orbit Control Systems (AOCS) simulator, focusing on Guidance, Navigation and Control (GNC) module, sensor and actuator modelling, FDIR, automatic reporting tools
• Designed Attitude and Orbit Control subsystems in feasibility studies, assessing new mission concepts, focusing on requirements, actuator sizing, equipment selection and preliminary pointing budget
• Enhanced modelling of environmental disturbance effects, verified ray-tracing-based tool
• Performed tests on the planetary scene generation tool PANGU in the infrared range

Stevenage, England, United Kingdom

• Developed Attitude and Orbit Control System simulators, designed and tuned controllers (B-dot, B-spin, bang-bang, PID), ran sensitivity analyses and Monte-Carlo campaigns, post-processed, visualised and documented.
• Modelled errors of attitude determination and visual odometer for the Sample Fetch Rover
• Built and tested an accelerometer test bench for bias drift estimation

Budapest, Hungary

• Proposed, researched, and implemented a multi-vehicle tracking algorithm for self-driving car navigation
• Used Convolutional Neural Networks, filtering techniques, lane and road-edge detection, localisation, and mapping

Budapest, Hungary

• Taught courses on Statistics, Calculus, Linear Algebra, Differential Equations and Mechanics
• Supervised laboratory sessions on Electromechanics and Basics of Electrotechnics

Budapest, Hungary

• Analyzed adaptive meshing OpenFOAM (Computational Fluid Dynamics tool)

Msc In Autonomous Vehicle Dynamics And Control, Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical Engineering

• Master’s Thesis with QinetiQ: Implemented a semi-supervised learning framework for self-driving off-road vehicle navigation with 83%.

Msc In Mechanical Engineering Modeling, Mechanical Engineering

• Master’s Thesis: Implemented a terrain classification algorithm with 87% accuracy for off-road vehicle navigation. Used visual odometry.

Bsc In Mechatronics Engineering, Mechatronics, Robotics, And Automation Engineering

• Bachelor’s Thesis: Analysed the stability of turning and milling processes with passive damping, optimised damper parameters for highest.

Summer Course On Data Analysis

• Data analysis using pandas and scikit-learn.

Summer Course On Artificial Intelligence

• Q-learning, genetic algorithms in Python. • Convolutional Neural Networks, Deep Learning using TensorFlow.