Education
Ph.D., Robotics, Georgia Institute of Technology
M.S., Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
B.S., Computational Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
 

Travis Driver is a Research Engineer in the Space Exploration Analysis Laboratory (SEAL) at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. in Robotics from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2025, where his dissertation work was supported by a NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Opportunity (NSTGRO) Fellowship. Travis previously served as a Visiting Technologist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in the Aerial and Orbital Imaging Group and at Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in the Navigation and Mission Design Branch through the NSTGRO program.

Travis' doctoral research focused on autonomous optical navigation and mapping for missions to small celestial bodies such as asteroids, often employing deep learning and probabilistic graphical models. He received an AIAA best paper award for his work on combining structure-from-motion and photoclinometry for high-fidelity surface reconstruction and rendering of small bodies. As a research engineer at SEAL, his research focuses on autonomous optical navigation for lunar terrain relative navigation.