Deep Parikh is a second year Ph.D. student in the Aerospace Engineering Department. He received his MTech in Aerospace engineering from IIT Kanpur in 2019, with Academic Excellence Awards for the years 2018 and 2019, and BTech in Instrumentation and Control Engineering from Nirma University in 2014, with the departmental gold medal. Afterwards, he worked as an Instrumentation Engineer for a fertilizer plant and as a Robotics Developer at MathWorks India. Now at the LASR Lab, Deep’s research focuses on Rendezvous Proximity Operations and Docking (RPOD) for spacecraft applications involving autonomous free-flying robots, active debris removal, and satellite servicing. Currently, he is working on designing and validating pose estimation and control strategies for small satellites via fusion of UWB radar, IMU and vision sensors. Outside work, Deep likes to cook, visit scientific museums and work on miniature models of spacecraft and satellites. For further details, visit https://deepparikh.github.io/