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Education

PhD Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2025
SM Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022
- Thesis: Optical Performance and Prototyping of a Liquid Lens Laser Communications Transceiver
MEng Aeronautical Engineering with a Year Abroad, Imperial College London, 2020
- Thesis: Design of Low Leakage MEMS Valves for Spacecraft Applications

Work experience

Summer 2015: Research Assistant
- Github University
- Duties included: Tagging issues
- Supervisor: Professor Git
Fall 2015: Research Assistant
- Github University
- Duties included: Merging pull requests
- Supervisor: Professor Hub

Skills

Skill 1
Skill 2
- Sub-skill 2.1
- Sub-skill 2.2
- Sub-skill 2.3
Skill 3

Publications

Journal Papers

[1] Daniel A Goldman, Paul Serra, Shreeyam Kacker, Lucas Benney, Daniel Vresilovic, Steven J Spector, Kerri Cahoy, and Jordan S Wachs. MOEMS-based Lens-Assisted Beam Steering for Free-Space Optical Communications. Journal of Lightwave Technology.

Peer-reviewed Conference Papers

[2] Hannah Tomio, Albert Thieu, Amelia Gagnon, Sophia K Vlahakis, Shreeyam Kacker, Joe Kusters, and Kerri Cahoy. Commercially Available Imaging Payloads for CubeSat Earth Observation Missions. IEEE.

Conference Papers

[3] Shreeyam Kacker, Mary Dahl, Albert Thieu, Cadence Payne, Kerri Cahoy, Paul Fucile, Viviane Menezes, and Sean McCarthy. Satellite for Estimating Aquatic Salinity and Temperature (SEASALT) a Payload and Instrumentation Overview.

[4] Shreeyam Kacker, Alex Meredith, Kerri Cahoy, and Georges Labreche. Machine learning image processing algorithms onboard OPS-SAT.

[5] Shreeyam Kacker, Alex Meredith, Joe Kusters, Hannah Tomio, Violet Felt, and Kerri Cahoy. On-orbit rule-based and deep learning image segmentation strategies. In AIAA SCITECH 2022 Forum.

[6] Sean McCarthy, Viviane Menezes, Paul Fucile, Kerri Cahoy, Mary Dahl, Albert Thieu, Cadence Payne, Charles Lindsay, and Shreeyam Kacker. Satellite for Estimating Aquatic Salinity and Temperature (SEASALT)-A Scientific Overview.

[7] Leonid Pogorelyuk, Paul Serra, Shreeyam Kacker, Sophia Vlahakis, Nicholas Belsten, Gioia Rau, Kenneth G Carpenter, Laurent Pueyo, John D Monnier, Ewan S Douglas, et al. Laser-guided space interferometer. In Optical and Infrared Interferometry and Imaging VIII, SPIE.

[8] Shreeyam Kacker, Ondrej Cierny, Jared Boyer, and Kerri Cahoy. Link analysis for a liquid lens beam steering system, the miniature optical steered antenna for intersatellite communication: MOSAIC. In Free-Space Laser Communications XXXIII, SPIE.

[9] Paula do Vale Pereira, Katherine S Chun, Mario M Contreras, Charles Lindsay, Shreeyam Kacker, Raymond Huffman, Christian Haughwout, and Kerri Cahoy. Folded Lightweight Actuator Positioning System (FLAPS).

Preprints

[10] Violet Felt, Shreeyam Kacker, Joe Kusters, John Pendergast, and Kerri Cahoy. Fast Ocean Front Detection Using Deep Learning Edge Detection Models.

Theses

[11] Shreeyam Kacker. Optical Performance and Prototyping of a Liquid Lens Laser Communications Transceiver. SM thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

[12]. Shreeyam Kacker. Design of low leakage MEMS valves for spacecraft applications. MEng thesis, Imperial College London.

Shreeyam Kacker

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