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Gonzalo Cucho Padin

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Gonzalo Cucho Padin

  • Postdoctoral researcher
  • NASA/GSFC
  • Employer: CATHOLIC UNIV OF AMERICA

    • Education

    • 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

    Positions/Employment

    9/2021 - Present

    Postdoctoral Researcher

    NASA/GSFC & CUA, 8800 Greenbelt Rd, Greenbelt, MD, 20771

    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

    Estimating atomic hydrogen density in the terrestrial exosphere through remote sensing of Lyman-alpha emission

    Analysis of Earth's Cusp Dynamics

    Implementing machine-learning based models of the Earth's Cusp to investigate proton flux distributions and their response to space weather.

    Soft X-ray Tomography

    Implementing 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

    Kasapis, S., B. J. Thompson, J. V. Rodriguez, et al. R. Attie, G. Cucho‐Padin, D. da Silva, M. Jin, and W. D. Pesnell. 2023. "Turning Noise Into Data: Characterization of the Van Allen Radiation Belt Using SDO Spikes Data." Space Weather, 21 (3): [10.1029/2022sw003310]

    Sibeck, D. G., K. R. Murphy, F. S. Porter, et al. H. K. Connor, B. M. Walsh, K. D. Kuntz, E. Zesta, P. Valek, C. L. Baker, J. Goldstein, H. Frey, S.-Y. Hsieh, P. C. Brandt, R. Gomez, G. A. DiBraccio, S. Kameda, V. Dwivedi, M. E. Purucker, M. Shoemaker, S. M. Petrinec, H. Aryan, R. T. Desai, M. G. Henderson, G. Cucho-Padin, and W. D. Cramer. 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]

    Cucho-Padin, G., D. Bhattacharyya, D. G. Sibeck, et al. H. Connor, A. Youngblood, and D. Ardila. 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]

    Cucho-Padin, G., H. Godinez, L. Waldrop, et al. I. Baliukin, D. Bhattacharyya, D. Sibeck, and M. Henderson. 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]

    Cucho‐Padin, G., S. Kameda, and D. G. Sibeck. 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]

    Cucho‐Padin, G., and L. Waldrop. 2020. "New Sensing Strategies for Estimation of Global, Exospheric Density." Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 125 (9): [10.1029/2020ja028099]

    Cucho‐Padin, G., and L. Waldrop. 2019. "Time‐Dependent Response of the Terrestrial Exosphere to a Geomagnetic Storm." Geophysical Research Letters, 46 (21): 11661-11670 [10.1029/2019gl084327]

    Cucho‐Padin, G., Y. Wang, E. Li, et al. L. Waldrop, Z. Tian, F. Kamalabadi, and P. Perillat. 2019. "Radio Frequency Interference Detection and Mitigation Using Compressive Statistical Sensing." Radio Science, 54 (11): 986-1001 [10.1029/2019rs006902]

    Cucho-Padin, G., Y. Wang, L. Waldrop, Z. Tian, and F. Kamalabadi. 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]

    Cucho‐Padin, G., and L. Waldrop. 2018. "Tomographic Estimation of Exospheric Hydrogen Density Distributions." Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 123 (6): 5119-5139 [10.1029/2018ja025323]

    Talks, Presentations and Posters

    Three-dimensional reconstruction of ion fluxes in the Earth’s northern cusp using neural networks

     12 / 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

     12 / 14 / 2022

    AGU Fall Meeting 2022, Chicago, IL, USA


    Publications

    Refereed

    Kasapis, S., B. J. Thompson, J. V. Rodriguez, et al. R. Attie, G. Cucho‐Padin, D. da Silva, M. Jin, and W. D. Pesnell. 2023. "Turning Noise Into Data: Characterization of the Van Allen Radiation Belt Using SDO Spikes Data." Space Weather 21 (3): [10.1029/2022sw003310]

    Sibeck, D. G., K. R. Murphy, F. S. Porter, et al. H. K. Connor, B. M. Walsh, K. D. Kuntz, E. Zesta, P. Valek, C. L. Baker, J. Goldstein, H. Frey, S.-Y. Hsieh, P. C. Brandt, R. Gomez, G. A. DiBraccio, S. Kameda, V. Dwivedi, M. E. Purucker, M. Shoemaker, S. M. Petrinec, H. Aryan, R. T. Desai, M. G. Henderson, G. Cucho-Padin, and W. D. Cramer. 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]

    Cucho-Padin, G., D. Bhattacharyya, D. G. Sibeck, et al. H. Connor, A. Youngblood, and D. Ardila. 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]

    Cucho-Padin, G., H. Godinez, L. Waldrop, et al. I. Baliukin, D. Bhattacharyya, D. Sibeck, and M. Henderson. 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]

    Cucho‐Padin, G., S. Kameda, and D. G. Sibeck. 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]

    Cucho‐Padin, G., and L. Waldrop. 2020. "New Sensing Strategies for Estimation of Global, Exospheric Density." Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 125 (9): [10.1029/2020ja028099]

    Cucho‐Padin, G., and L. Waldrop. 2019. "Time‐Dependent Response of the Terrestrial Exosphere to a Geomagnetic Storm." Geophysical Research Letters 46 (21): 11661-11670 [10.1029/2019gl084327]

    Cucho‐Padin, G., Y. Wang, E. Li, et al. L. Waldrop, Z. Tian, F. Kamalabadi, and P. Perillat. 2019. "Radio Frequency Interference Detection and Mitigation Using Compressive Statistical Sensing." Radio Science 54 (11): 986-1001 [10.1029/2019rs006902]

    Cucho-Padin, G., Y. Wang, L. Waldrop, Z. Tian, and F. Kamalabadi. 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]

    Cucho‐Padin, G., and L. Waldrop. 2018. "Tomographic Estimation of Exospheric Hydrogen Density Distributions." Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 123 (6): 5119-5139 [10.1029/2018ja025323]

                                                                                                                                                                                            
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