Renato Zanetti

Renato Zanetti is an Associate Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics at the University of Texas at Austin, where he has served as core faculty since January 2017. His affiliations include:

• Core Faculty, Center for Autonomy
• Affiliate, Jah Decision Intelligence Group

His research develops cutting-edge statistical methods for aerospace applications, focusing on three interconnected domains:

• Autonomy systems: Specializing in GPS-denied navigation and spacecraft rendezvous
• Inverse problems: Creating hybrid physics-machine learning approaches
• Scientific machine learning: Advancing Sequential Monte Carlo and Gaussian Mixture Models

Before academia, he accumulated significant industry experience:

• Designed Orion spacecraft navigation systems at NASA Johnson Space Center
• Led the Vehicles Dynamics group at Draper Laboratory
• Developed navigation for Cygnus ISS resupply missions