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Kerri Cahoy is the Sheila Evans Widnall Professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She leads the MIT Space Telecommunications, Astronomy, and Radiation (STAR) Lab, focusing on developing nanosatellite laser communication systems and weather sensors. Cahoy’s research involves supporting space telescope missions, including the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), and developing innovative technologies such as MEMS deformable mirrors for high-contrast coronagraph wavefront control systems. Her work is vital for improving the performance and reliability of CubeSat components through radiation testing. Cahoy has an extensive background in spacecraft radio systems, space weather, and planetary atmospheric sensing, leveraging methods like radio occultation to study the upper atmosphere of Mars. She contributed to the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft and was part of the MIT Gravity Recovery Interior Laboratory lunar mission team at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Her research and contributions to the field have been recognized with several awards, including being named an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Cambridge, MA
Leading research in Space Telecommunications, Astronomy, and Radiation at the MIT Space Telecommunications, Astronomy, and Radiation (STAR) Lab.