Welcome to my office in POST 524B (2023)
Holding my magnetic spacecraft (2018)
Observing and taking notes during microgravity experiment, as seen in NASA press release (2018)
In the Hawaii Space Flight Lab cleanroom Attitude Determination Control and Sensing Facility with the amazing Lloyd French behind me (2020)
Frankie is currently a tenure-track assistant researcher at the University of Hawaii at Manoa in the Space Systems field.
I will soon be a tenure-track assistant professor at the Colorado School of Mines in the Space Robotics field.
My research interests are dynamics, controls, systems engineering, and machine learning for space applications. I strive to explore and learn about our universe through and beside intelligent robotic systems.
I received my Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering in 2014, my Master of Science in aerospace engineering in 2017, and received my PhD in aerospace engineering in 2019 all at Cornell University.
Interested in collaborating or joining the lab? Email me at zhuf (at) hawaii.edu
Interested in hiring me for a consulting gig? Also email me at zhuf (at) hawaii.edu
Posting with my AXEL rover friend in the extreme robotics lab at NASA JPL (2020)
Testing the camera tracking system in experiment testbed (2017)
Talking to the acting administrator of NASA, Rob Lightfoot, at NASA Technology Day at the Hill (2017)