TROY ASTORINO term address *** Newbury St, Apt. **A, Boston, MA
permanent address 25252 Mustang Drive, Laguna Hills, CA
email ********@***.***
phone 949-***-****
EDUCATION
Massachusetts Institute of Candidate for Bachelor of Science in Physics with a Focus in Computational Learning
and in Aeronautical/Astronautical Engineering with a Concentration in Robotics
Technology
Minor in Economics
Cambridge, MA
GPA: 4.5/5.0
Class of 2013
Sage Hill School SAT: 780 Math, 800 Reading, 760 Writing
Newport Coast, CA GPA: 4.4/4.0
Class of 2009
WORK EXPERIENCE
SpaceX Developed web service for launching, monitoring, and analyzing Monte Carlo
Los Angeles, CA simulations over the mission trajectory. Integrated with the existing simulator and the
Summer 2012 - Present high performance computing cluster. Built front-end and back-end of the web service,
as well as the processing libraries for generating dispersions over various mission
parameters.
Robust Robotics Group Testing algorithms for autonomous localization of a chemical vapor source using
CSAIL, MIT measurements from a small electric sensor. Developing software for experimentation
Fall 2011 Present on a robotic wheelchair and a quadcopter. Comparing effectiveness of various
planning algorithms and models of chemical plume dispersion
Lockheed Martin Developed ground station software for commanding a commercial imagery satellite.
King of Prussia, PA Engineered component from initial design through integration and demonstration for
Summer 2011 the processing and transmitting of GPS Almanac data. Discovered and fixed several
critical bugs in the legacy software framework
CSNSM Designed and implemented modifications to ASIC test board for analyzing a new
Orsay, France material for gamma ray astronomy in order to improve resolution of measurements.
Summer 2010 Collected measurements with radioactive source and performed analysis on the data.
Wrote automated data analysis program in Java and Matlab. Results presented in
th
poster at 8 INTEGRAL Workshop in Dublin
Clojure, Python, Java, Node.js, C#, C++, HTML, CSS, Backbone.js, Matlab, VHDL
SKILLS
Fluent in French
Robotics, Computational Cognitive Science, Computational Neuroscience, Statistical
SELECTED
Learning Theory, Real Time Systems and Software, Automatic Control, Algorithms,
COURSEWORK Probabilistic Systems Analysis, Relativity, Quantum Physics, Statistical Mechanics,
Dynamics, Thermodynamics, Signal Processing, Econometrics, Finance Theory
MIT Freshman Leadership Program Counselor (2011-2012), Baker Leaders Mentor
ACTIVITIES &
(2011-2012), Baker House Rooming Chair (2011-2012), MIT Varsity Tennis (2009-
LEADERSHIP 2012), Sage Hill Basketball Team Captain (2009), Sage Hill Tennis Team Captain
(2008, 2009), Sage Hill Class President (2006-2008)
National Merit Scholarship (2009-2011), AP National Scholar (2009), Sage Hill Scholar
AWARDS
Athlete of the Year (2009)
TS/SCI Cleared