• Brooke Owens Fellow, Class of 2018

• University of Southern California, Electrical Engineering, MS ‘20, PhD ’23

• MIT, Aerospace Engineering, ‘18

• Host Institution: SSL

• Mentor: Laurie Leshin

Lilly Clark is a Ph.D. student in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Southern California. As NASA Space Technology Research Fellow, her research is in localization and connectivity-management in robotic wireless sensor networks, with applications in lunar exploration.

She received her BS in Aerospace Engineering from MIT in 2018.

Lilly spent summer 2018 at her BOFP host company, SSL (now Maxar Technologies), on the Mission Systems Integration team. She is also an alumna of the Matthew Isakowitz Fellowship Program, and spent summer 2019 at her MIFP host company, the Aerospace Corporation, in the Communication Architectures Department. Lilly has also interned at NASA Goddard (2020), NASA JPL (2017), and Thales Alenia Space (2016).

Outside of classes and research, Lilly is on the organizing committee of the PhD Women in Computing Club, enjoys hip hop dance, and conducts interviews for Robohub’s Podcast on robotics.