David van Wijk is a third year Ph.D. student in the Aerospace Engineering department, funded by the College of Engineering Graduate Merit Fellowship. He graduated Magna Cum Laude in May of 2021 from Cornell University with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Sibley school of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering where he was involved in research in the Laboratory for Intelligent Systems and Controls. He is currently working on reinforcement learning and safety critical control of spacecraft in collaboration with the Safe Autonomy team at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). Broadly, he is interested in robotics, autonomous systems, and safe reinforcement learning. For more details see https://davidvwijk.github.io/