Moises Mata

I’m a PhD student in Aerospace Engineering at USC, advised by Dr. Keenan Albee in the LASER Lab.

My research interests broadly lie in increasing autonomy for robotic space exploration systems, allowing them to explore deep space. I also have experience in flight software.

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moymata@usc.edu

Publications

Crazyflie spiral landing under a cone constraint, from the Conic-TinyMPC paper

Code Generation and Conic Constraints for Model-Predictive Control on Microcontrollers with Conic-TinyMPC

Ishaan Mahajan, Khai Nguyen, Sam Schoedel, Elakhya Nedumaran, Moises Mata, Brian Plancher, and Zachary Manchester

ICRA, 2026

Projects

LionCub CubeSat deployment against the sky

Columbia LionCub CubeSat

Columbia Space Initiative's first satellite mission

NASA SUITS

Spacesuit User Interface Technologies for Students

N-body simulation displayed on a monitor

N-Body Hardware Accelerator

FPGA-based acceleration for gravitational N-body simulations

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