Teaching Assistant, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UIUC, August 2018 - December 2018
Teaching Assistant, Department of Computer Science, UCF, August 2015 - December 2015
Estimating atomic hydrogen density in the terrestrial exosphere through remote sensing of Lyman-alpha emission
Implementing machine-learning based models of the Earth's Cusp to investigate proton flux distributions and their response to space weather.
Implementing tomographic techniques to estimate the three-dimensional structure of the magnetosheath from soft x-ray imagery.
2022 - Present: OSPA Coordinator, AGU Fall Meeting.
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.
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]
Three-dimensional reconstruction of ion fluxes in the Earth’s northern cusp using neural networks
12 / 16 / 2022AGU Fall Meeting 2022, Chicago, IL, USA
A Soft X-ray Tomographic Approach to Determine the Three-dimensional Spatial Structure of the Magnetosheath
12 / 14 / 2022AGU Fall Meeting 2022, Chicago, IL, USA
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]