Andrea Scorsoglio

Andrea Scorsoglio was born in Piacenza, Italy. He has earned his bachelor's and master's degrees at Politecnico di Milano in aerospace engineering and space engineering respectively. He developed his master thesis in 2017/2018 within a collaboration between Politecnico di Milano and the University of Arizona, where he then started his Ph.D. in System Engineering in 2019.

Since summer 2019, he is working on the NASA mission named Near Earth Objects Surveillance Mission (NEOSM) as part of the Follow-Up working group. His main contribution is the development of a Near-Earth Objects simulator to be used to support and validate a ranking algorithm needed for decision making related to NEOs follow-up strategies. His research is mainly focused on reinforcement learning for spacecraft guidance applications with visual environments.