- Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL
- M.S. in Computer Science, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
- B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, Lima, Peru
Gonzalo Cucho Padin
(Postdoctoral researcher)
| Email: | gonzaloaugusto.cuchopadin@nasa.gov |
| Org Code: | 674 |
| Address: |
NASA/GSFC Mail Code 674 Greenbelt, MD 20771 |
| Employer: | CATHOLIC UNIV OF AMERICA |
Education
Positions/Employment
Postdoctoral Researcher
NASA/GSFC & CUA - 8800 Greenbelt Rd, Greenbelt, MD, 20771
September 2021 - Present
Teaching Experience
Teaching Assistant, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UIUC, August 2018 - December 2018
Teaching Assistant, Department of Computer Science, UCF, August 2015 - December 2015
Research Interests
Analysis of the Terrestrial Exosphere
Heliophysics: Remote SensingEstimating atomic hydrogen density in the terrestrial exosphere through remote sensing of Lyman-alpha emission
Analysis of Earth's Cusp Dynamics
Heliophysics: Theory & ModelingImplementing machine-learning based models of the Earth's Cusp to investigate proton flux distributions and their response to space weather.
Soft X-ray Tomography
Heliophysics: Remote SensingImplementing tomographic techniques to estimate the three-dimensional structure of the magnetosheath from soft x-ray imagery.
Professional Societies
American Geophysical Union
2017 - Present
Professional Service
2022 - Present: OSPA Coordinator, AGU Fall Meeting.
Awards
2021: Shun Lien Chuang Memorial Award for Excellence in Graduate Education from UIUC
2021: Vela Fellowship from Los Alamos National Laboratory
2020: Yuen Tze Lo Outstanding Graduate Research Award from UIUC
2018: Awarded 1st Place in the Student Poster Competition at the NSF-CEDAR conference
2014: William J. Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Award for graduate studies.
Publications
Refereed
2024. "Variability of Earth’s ionospheric outflow in response to the dynamic terrestrial exosphere." Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences 11 [10.3389/fspas.2024.1462957] [Journal Article/Letter]
2024. "Investigation of the energetic and radiative transfer properties of exospheric hydrogen with the Hydrogen Emission Line Interferometric eXplorer (HELIX)." Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray 20 [10.1117/12.3019231] [Proceedings]
2024. "A feasibility study of 4-D tomography of soft X-ray magnetosheath emissivities using multi-spacecraft measurements." Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences 11 [10.3389/fspas.2024.1379321] [Journal Article/Letter]
2023. "Finding the magnetopause location using soft X-ray observations and a statistical inverse method." Earth and Planetary Physics 8 (1): 1-20 [10.26464/epp2023070] [Journal Article/Letter]
2023. "Turning Noise Into Data: Characterization of the Van Allen Radiation Belt Using SDO Spikes Data." Space Weather 21 (3): [10.1029/2022sw003310] [Journal Article/Letter]
2023. "Quantifying the global solar wind-magnetosphere interaction with the Solar-Terrestrial Observer for the Response of the Magnetosphere (STORM) mission concept." Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences 10 [10.3389/fspas.2023.1138616] [Journal Article/Letter]
2023. "EXOSpy: A python package to investigate the terrestrial exosphere and its FUV emission." Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences 10 [10.3389/fspas.2023.1082150] [Journal Article/Letter]
2023. "A New Approach for 4-D Exospheric Tomography Based on Optimal Interpolation and Gaussian Markov Random Fields." IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters 20 1-5 [10.1109/lgrs.2023.3237793] [Journal Article/Letter]
2022. "The Earth’s Outer Exospheric Density Distributions Derived From PROCYON/LAICA UV Observations." Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 127 (6): [10.1029/2021ja030211] [Journal Article/Letter]
2020. "New Sensing Strategies for Estimation of Global, Exospheric Density." Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 125 (9): [10.1029/2020ja028099] [Journal Article/Letter]
2019. "Time‐Dependent Response of the Terrestrial Exosphere to a Geomagnetic Storm." Geophysical Research Letters 46 (21): 11661-11670 [10.1029/2019gl084327] [Journal Article/Letter]
2019. "Radio Frequency Interference Detection and Mitigation Using Compressive Statistical Sensing." Radio Science 54 (11): 986-1001 [10.1029/2019rs006902] [Journal Article/Letter]
2018. "Efficient RFI Detection in Radio Astronomy based on Compressive Statistical Sensing." 2018 IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP) [10.1109/globalsip.2018.8646517] [Proceedings]
2018. "Tomographic Estimation of Exospheric Hydrogen Density Distributions." Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 123 (6): 5119-5139 [10.1029/2018ja025323] [Journal Article/Letter]
Talks, Presentations and Posters
Other
Three-dimensional reconstruction of ion fluxes in the Earth’s northern cusp using neural networks
16, 2022
AGU Fall Meeting 2022, Chicago, IL, USA
A Soft X-ray Tomographic Approach to Determine the Three-dimensional Spatial Structure of the Magnetosheath
14, 2022
AGU Fall Meeting 2022, Chicago, IL, USA