Frances Zhu earned her B.S. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Cornell University, Ithaca in 2014 and a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering at Cornell in 2019. From 2014 to 2019, she was a Research Assistant with the Space Systems Design Studio, specializing in dynamics, systems, and controls engineering. Her research interests include flux pinned interface applications, spacecraft system architectures, robot dynamics, estimation, and controls. Dr. Zhu was a NASA Space Technology Research Fellow. Currently, she is an Assistant Researcher at University of Hawaii in the topic of space robotics and machine learning.