Siwei Fan

Title
Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering
Email
Department
Aerospace Engineering Department
College
College of Engineering

Areas of Expertise

Dynamics, Astrodynamics, Space Debris Analysis, Space Object Characterization
  • Ph.D. - Doctor of Philosophy in Aeronautics and Astronautics, Purdue University-Main Campus
  • M.S. - Master of Science in Aeronautics and Astronautics, Purdue University-Main Campus
  • ES 204: Dynamics
  • AE 313: Space Mechanics

AE313 - Space Mechanics

ES204 - Dynamics

Fan, S., & Frueh, C. (2021, April). Multi-hypothesis light curve inversion scheme for convex objects with minimal observations. In Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Space Debris (pp. 1-7).

Fan, S., & Frueh, C. (2020). A direct light curve inversion scheme in the presence of measurement noise. The Journal of the Astronautical Sciences, 67, 740-761.

Buzzoni, A., Altavilla, G., Fan, S., Frueh, C., Foppiani, I., Micheli, M., ... & Sánchez-Ortiz, N. (2019). Physical characterization of the deep-space debris WT1190F: a testbed for advanced SSA techniques. Advances in Space Research, 63(1), 371-393.

Micheli, Marco, Alberto Buzzoni, Detlef Koschny, Gerhard Drolshagen, Ettore Perozzi, Olivier Hainaut, Stijn Lemmens et al. "The observing campaign on the deep-space debris WT1190F as a test case for short-warning NEO impacts." Icarus 304 (2018): 4-8.

Fan, S., Frueh, C., & Buzzoni, A. (2016). A light curve simulation of the Apollo Lunar Ascent module. In AIAA/AAS Astrodynamics Specialist Conference (p. 5504).

2022 - present, Assistant Professor, Aerospace Engineering, Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, AZ

Embry-Riddle’s Faculty Innovative Research in Science and Technology (FIRST) Award 2023-2024