Lily Qiao

Senior Lecturer in Space Systems Engineering at the School of Engineering and Technology (SET), UNSW Canberra campus. Lily completed her PhD in Guidance Navigation and Control in 2011, including a study exchange at the School of Surveying and Spatial Information Systems at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. Before joining UNSW Canberra, she was research associate at the Australian Centre for Space Engineering Research (ACSER) at UNSW Sydney from 2011 to 2014, working for the design of Garada Earth Observation Mission and EC0 CubeSat Mission. Then, she joined as a research associate at the Capability System Centre, School of Engineering and IT, University of New South Wales, Canberra. In 2018, she was promoted to lecturer. In 2023, she has been promoted to Senior Lecturer. Lily's teaching spans postgraduate and undergraduate. She mainly engaged in PG teaching for UNSW Canberra Space Master Education Program since she is the course convenor for ZEIT8008 Space Systems Design, and ZEIT8009 Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS). For undergraduates, she is convenor of the course ZEIT4227 Radar Technology and Application. She has chaired the Space Panel of UG students' Final Year Project from 2022–2023. Her research interests lie in space engineering systems design, and applying AI/CI based computational system engineering analysis methods on include, but not be limited to, space systems. Her area covers a wide range of topics, including autonomous spacecraft navigation based on Global Navigation Satellites System (GNSS) and celestial navigation, spacecraft attitude determination and control, tradespace exploration, system modular analysis, etc. She has published over 50 articles in peer-reviewed conferences and journals. She has two PhD students to complete, and currently has six PhD students under supervision. She has been an organisation committee member for the Australian Space Research Conference since 2022, and has served as Deputy Chair of the Program Committee in 2023 and Chair of the Program Committee since 2024. She is an IEEE senior member, and her current volunteer roles are IEEE Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Section Vice Chair and the Aerospace Electronic Systems Society (AESS) chapter at the ACT Section. Guidance Navigation and Control, Data fusion/Kalman filer design, Space system engineering, System modular analysis, System trade space exploration, Spacecraft autonomous navigation/orbit determination based on GNSS, celestial navigation, Spacecraft attitude determination and control system (ADCS), Kalman filter technology, Digital system engineering