- 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
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