Visiting Scholars
Jin Kai
Education
PhD Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China
2016

Aerospace Engineering
Jin Kai is a visiting postdoctoral scholar from Xi'an, China. He applies convex optimization techniques, particularly the second-order cone problem, to the task of generating a landing footprint for reentry vehicles in the atmospheres of Earth and Mars; that is, he studies how to predict where a spacecraft will land after atmospheric reentry.
Awards
2016-2018
State Scholarship Fund of China
Publications and Presentations
Resume
Sant 214A