Cagri Kilic
Member of The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi
From Morgantown, West Virginia
From Morgantown, West Virginia
As a Research Assistant Professor at West Virginia University, my primary research focus lies in advancing the field of space robotics, emphasizing the development of computationally efficient state estimation techniques. I explore cooperative localization, perception, planning, and robot-terrain interactions for multi-robot systems in challenging and visually constrained environments.
My Ph.D. research in Aerospace Engineering at WVU was focused on space robotics localization applications using terramechanics relations with inertial sensors. Through my Ph.D. studies, I worked on improving localization for Lunar and Martian rovers by performing field tests on planetary analog environments. I'm a past recipient of the Fulbright Scholarship, WVU Statler Fellowship, Phi Kappa Phi Graduate Research Grant, and Caltech's NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory JVSRP Fellowship.
I received my M.Sc. degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics Engineering from Istanbul Technical University (ITU), where I studied the orbital mission analyses of CubeSats. I was a graduate researcher at the Space Systems Design and Test Laboratory (SSDTL) at ITU. My work at SSDTL was related to trajectory optimization and orbital dynamics simulations.
I graduated with a B.Sc. degree in Astronautical Engineering from ITU. During my undergraduate studies, I was a team leader of the first Turkish can-sized microsatellite (CanSat) team and the MERIT award owner. In my senior year, I participated in QB50, the international network of a CubeSats project, as a Short Training Program student with a scholarship for the development and deployment strategies for QB50 at the von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (VKI), Belgium.
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Cagri Kilic Awarded Phi Kappa Phi Graduate Research Grant
Cagri Kilic, of Morgantown, West Virginia, has been selected as a 2021 recipient of a Graduate Research Grant by The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi-the nation's oldest and most selective collegiate...
March, 11 2021 - Verified by The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi
Cagri Kilic Inducted into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi
Cagri Kilic of Morgantown, West Virginia, was recently initiated into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation's oldest and most selective all-discipline collegiate honor society. Kilic was ...
February, 28 2018 - Verified by The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi
Cagri Kilic was recognized for earning an academic award
Christopher Fellowship
Spring 2017 -
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Cagri Kilic was recognized for earning an academic award
Statler Ph.D. Fellowship
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Robotics Research Affiliate at JPL (NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
Providing accurate and reliable navigation solutions by leveraging terramechanics relations with inertial sensors for a Mars Sample Return Rover at NASA/JPL.
January 2019 - March 2019
Graduate Research Assistant at West Virginia University
May 2017 - December 2021