Juno Woods, PhD
About Juno Woods, PhD
Juno Woods, PhD, is a Senior GN&C Engineer II at Astranis Space Technologies with extensive experience in guidance, navigation, and control engineering. She has held various roles in notable organizations and has contributed to research in natural language processing and the sociology of collective invention.
Current Role at Astranis Space Technologies
Juno Woods serves as a Senior Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GN&C) Engineer II at Astranis Space Technologies. She has held this position since 2024, contributing her expertise in GN&C systems to the company's projects in San Francisco, California. Her role involves applying advanced engineering principles to the development of satellite technology.
Previous Experience in Aerospace Engineering
Before joining Astranis, Juno Woods held multiple positions in the aerospace sector. She worked at Masten Space Systems as a GN&C Engineer from 2021 to 2022 and at Intuitive Machines as a Senior Development Engineer from 2015 to 2019. Additionally, she served in various roles at the Open Lunar Foundation, including Director of Engineering Research & Strategy and Senior Researcher, from 2019 to 2021.
Educational Background and Research
Juno Woods earned her Ph.D. in Cell and Molecular Biology (Bioinformatics) from The University of Texas at Austin, where her research was supported by a National Science Foundation Fellowship. She also holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Virginia Tech. Her undergraduate research focused on natural language processing, and her Ph.D. research gained recognition, being featured in the New York Times.
Technical Skills and Certifications
Juno Woods possesses extensive technical skills, particularly in programming languages such as C/C++, Python, and Ruby. She has twenty years of experience with C/C++ and a decade each in Python and Ruby. Additionally, she is certified in the FEMA incident command system (ICS-100) and has expertise in designing sensor machine learning models for complex data analysis.
Community Engagement and Contributions
In addition to her engineering work, Juno Woods is actively involved in community service. She trains mental health first responders for Burning Man, an annual arts festival in Nevada. She also co-founded Texas' only non-profit dedicated to non-partisan policy research on gun violence prevention, demonstrating her commitment to social issues.