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Edgar Glenn Lightsey is the John W. Young Endowed Chair Professor in the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Tech. He serves on the chair executive committee for the Space Research Initiative from 2023 to 2025. His previous roles include Director of the Space Systems Design Lab from 2016-2023 and Director of the Center for Space Technology Research at Georgia Tech from 2019-2023. Dr. Lightsey specializes in technology for small satellites, including guidance, control systems, attitude determination and control, radio systems, propulsion, spacecraft operations, and space systems engineering. His research group has built and operated spacecraft flight hardware, supported by various sponsors. He has co-authored more than 200 technical articles, publications, four book chapters, and holds several patents. He is an AIAA Fellow and a founding member of the AIAA Small Satellite Technical Committee, and has served as Associate Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Small Satellites, and as Associate Editor for both the AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics and the AIAA Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets. Prior to Georgia Tech, he was employed at the University of Texas at Austin and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.
Department of Computer Science: GRE scores are optional for Fall 2026.