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Davide Guzzetti

Aerospace Engineering

Associate Professor

Ginn Faculty Achievement Fellow

328 Davis Hall

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Education

Ph.D. Aeronautics and Astronautics, Purdue University
M.S. Space Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
M.S. Space Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
B.S. Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Research Interests

Astrodynamics
Space Mission Design
Machine Learning
Immersive Computing
Virtual Reality

In The News

Aerospace engineering students named finalist at NASA RASC-AL Competition

A team of Auburn aerospace engineers was named a finalist at the 2025 Revolutionary Aerospace Systems – Academic Linkage (RASC-AL) competition among 13 teams from other institutions.

Eight Auburn Engineering faculty members named to 2025 promotion, tenure list

Auburn University Provost Vini Nathan announced the names of faculty awarded promotion and tenure for 2025.

Four Auburn Engineering faculty members named Ginn Faculty Achievement Fellows

The Ginn Faculty Achievement Fellowship recognizes and rewards junior faculty who receive prestigious young investigator awards, including the National Science Foundation CAREER, Department of Defense, Department of Energy or National Institute of Health Young Investigator awards.

Engineering students among the winners at March 26 Auburn Student Research Symposium

Daniel Meadows, a graduate student in chemical engineering, won second place among all university graduate students in the STEM division for his oral presentation

Aerospace engineering assistant professor earns NASA Early Career Award

Davide Guzzetti, assistant professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering, has earned a NASA Early Career Faculty award to research how to remediate the accumulation of smaller pieces of orbital debris that are hard to track due to their size.

Aerospace engineering graduate students awarded DoD SMART Scholarships

Alton Stoute and Rehman Qureshi will begin assignments this summer at the U.S. Army Research Lab Proving Grounds in Aberdeen, Maryland, and Air Force Research Laboratory in Rome, New York, respectively.

Professors earn NASA EPSCoR grant to research impact of microgravity on self-folding polymer sheets

Russell Mailen and Davide Guzzetti's research "Activiation of Self-Folding Origami in Microgravity Environment" earned a NASA EPSCoR grant

Aerospace students challenged to resolve space trajectory issue

Can satellites built from asteroids surround the sun? Graduate students in aerospace engineering believe so

Graduate students, faculty honored at spring graduate school awards

The Auburn University Graduate School recently honored 15 engineering students and faculty at the annual graduate student spring awards virtual ceremony.

Applying game theory to predict the future of satellite internet

Satellite internet is the future of internet access, not only for the United States, but the rest of the world. Using game theory, aerospace engineering assistant professor Davide Guzzetti is working to predict how the satellite internet economy might play out in the years to come.

Aerospace faculty earn NIAC award to study self-assembling space technology

Auburn University aerospace engineering faculty members have received a $125,000 NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) award to explore the technology to enable kilometer-sized antenna arrays for radio astronomy that self-assemble in space.