Publications

A complete list of my publications, grouped by type. Select a tag to highlight the related work. To read about this work grouped by research theme, see my research page. I maintain these pages manually so they may be out-of-date; for the most up-to-date list please see my Google Scholar page.

Journal Papers

Free-Placement Optimization of Ground Station Locations for Low-Earth Orbit Satellites

Grace Ra Kim, Duncan Eddy, Vedant Srinivas, and Mykel J. Kochenderfer

AIAA Journal of Aerospace Information Systems, 2026

OptimizationSpace

A Maximum Independent Set Method for Scheduling Earth-Observing Satellite Constellations

Duncan Eddy and Mykel Kochenderfer

AIAA Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, 2021

OptimizationSpaceDecision Making

Conference Papers

Optimizing Task Completion Time Updates Using POMDPs

Duncan Eddy, Esen Yel, Emma Passmore, Niles Egan, Grayson Armour, Dylan M. Asmar, and Mykel J. Kochenderfer

International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2026

Decision MakingRobotics

Expert Evaluation and the Limits of Human Feedback in Mental Health AI Safety Testing

Kiana Jafari, Paul Ulrich Nikolaus Rust, Duncan Eddy, Robbie Fraser, Nina Vasan, Darja Djordjevic, Akanksha Dadlani, Max Lamparth, Eugenia Kim, Mykel Kochenderfer

ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, 2026

AI SafetyArtificial Intelligence

Scalable Ground Station Selection for Large LEO Constellations

Grace Ra Kim, Duncan Eddy, Vedant Srinivas, and Mykel J. Kochenderfer

IEEE Aerospace Conference, 2026

OptimizationSpace

Chance-Constrained Belief-Space Maneuver Planning for Autonomous Collision Avoidance Under Uncertainty

Grace Ra Kim, Mahdi Al-Husseini, Duncan Eddy, and Mykel Kochenderfer

Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance Technologies Conference, 2026

SpaceAstrodynamicsDecision Making

Semi-Decentralized Multi-Spacecraft Collision Avoidance under Communication Constraints

Grace Ra Kim, Mahdi Al-Husseini, Duncan Eddy, and Mykel Kochenderfer

AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, 2026

SpaceAstrodynamicsDecision Making

GPU-Accelerated Astrodynamics World Models for Spacecraft Rendezvous and Proximity Operations

Duncan Eddy, Isaac R. Ward, Grace Ra Kim, Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance Technologies Conference, 2026

World ModelsArtificial IntelligenceSpaceAstrodynamics

Foundational World Models Accurately Detect Bimanual Manipulator Failures

Isaac R. Ward, Michelle Ho, Houjun Liu, Aaron Feldman, Joseph Vincent, Liam Kruse, Sean Cheong, Duncan Eddy, Mykel J. Kochenderfer, Mac Schwager

International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2026

World ModelsArtificial IntelligenceRobotics

Beyond Gradient Averaging in Parallel Optimization: Improved Robustness through Gradient Agreement Filtering

Francois Chaubard, Duncan Eddy, and Mykel J. Kochenderfer

EMNLP, 2025

Artificial IntelligenceOptimization

RAG-DOLL: Zero-Shot LLM Multi-Hop Question Answering by Simultaneously Planning Over Documents and Strategies

Houjun Liu, Amelia F. Hardy, Samuel Akinwande, Robert J. Moss, Duncan Eddy, Christopher D. Manning, and Mykel J. Kochenderfer

EMNLP, 2025

Artificial IntelligenceDecision Making

ASTPrompter: Weakly Supervised Automated Language Model Red-Teaming to Identify Low-Perplexity Toxic Prompts

Amelia F. Hardy, Houjun Liu, Bernard Lange, Duncan Eddy, Mykel J. Kochenderfer

EMNLP, 2025

AI SafetyArtificial Intelligence

Optimal Ground Station Selection for Low-Earth Orbiting Satellites

Duncan Eddy, Michelle Ho, and Mykel Kochenderfer

IEEE Aerospace Conference, 2025

OptimizationSpace

Adaptive Science Operations in Deep Space Missions using Robust Precomputed Autonomy

Grace Kim, Hailey Warner, Duncan Eddy, Evan Astle, Zachary Booth, Edward Balaban, Mykel J. Kochenderfer

International Conference on Space Robotics, 2025

OptimizationSpaceDecision Making

Markov Decision Processes for Satellite Maneuver Planning and Collision Avoidance

William Kuhl, Jun Wang, Duncan Eddy, and Mykel Kochenderfer

IEEE Aerospace Conference, 2025

SpaceAstrodynamicsDecision Making

Capella Space First Operational SAR Satellite

Davide Castelletti, Gordon Farquharson, Craig Stringham, Michael Duersch, Duncan Eddy

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2021

Space

An Update on the Capella Space Radar Constellation

Gordon Farquharson, Davide Castelletti, Craig Stringham, and Duncan Eddy

European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar, 2021

Space

Markov Decision Processes for Multi-Objective Satellite Task Planning

Duncan Eddy and Mykel Kochenderfer

IEEE Aerospace Conference, 2020

OptimizationSpaceDecision Making

Operational Readiness of the Capella SAR System

Davide Castelletti, Gordon Farquharson, Craig Stringham, and Duncan Eddy

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2020

Space

The Capella X-band SAR Constellation for Rapid Imaging

Craig Stringham, Gordon Farquharson, Davide Castelletti, Eric Quist, Lucas Riggi, Duncan Eddy, Scott Soenen

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2019

Space

Preprints

SecureForge: Finding and Preventing Vulnerabilities in LLM-Generated Code via Prompt Optimization

Houjun Liu, Lisa Einstein, John Yang, Joachim Baumann, Duncan Eddy, Christopher D. Manning, Mykel Kochenderfer, and Diyi Yang

Neural Information Processing Systems, 2026 (Submitted)

AI SafetyArtificial Intelligence

Fault-Aware MPC for Robotic Fleet Communications Scheduling

Carlo Schreiber, Duncan Eddy, and Mykel J. Kochenderfer

IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2026 (Submitted)

OptimizationDecision MakingSpace

Brahe: A Modern Astrodynamics Library for Research and Engineering Applications

Duncan Eddy, and Mykel Kochenderfer

Journal of Open Source Software, 2025 (Submitted)

AstrodynamicsSpace

Satellite Task Planning Under Orbit Prediction Uncertainty

Duncan Eddy and Mykel J. Kochenderfer

preprint, 2019

OptimizationSpaceDecision Making