Education:
B.S.E., Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University 

Hometown: Fort Worth, TX

Benjamin Benjadol is a graduate student at the Georgia Institute of Technology pursuing M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Aerospace Engineering. His research interests are in spacecraft guidance, navigation, and control, and particularly optical navigation, terrain-relative navigation, precision landing, and hazard avoidance. He graduated from Princeton University in 2024 with a B.S.E. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering with a minor in Applications of Computing. His undergraduate research at Princeton focused on Lyapunov control laws for low-thrust orbital transfers and Hall thruster diagnostics. He is also a Pathways co-op at NASA's Johnson Space Center, where he has worked on guidance, navigation, and control teams for the Orion spacecraft, the Space Launch System rocket, and the Artemis program as part of the Flight Operations and Engineering Directorates.

Apart from being a space enthusiast, he also enjoys traveling, plane spotting, PC gaming, and watching football and TV shows.