Dr. Brian C. Gunter is an Associate Professor in the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the current Director of the Space Systems Design Laboratory (SSDL), which currently hosts 11 faculty and 90+ graduate students focused on space research. He received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from Rice University, and later his M.S. and Ph.D. in aerospace engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, specializing in orbital mechanics. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, Dr. Gunter was on the faculty of the Delft University of Technology (TU-Delft) in the Netherlands, as a member of the Physical and Space Geodesy section. He has served as the Principal Investigator (PI) for six separate small satellite missions, has received a NASA group achievement award for his work on the GRACE mission, and he is also a former recipient of a NASA Earth System Science Graduate Fellowship. He is a member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), the American Astronautical Society (AAS), and the American Geophysical Union (AGU). He is currently a member of the AIAA Small Satellite Technical Committee, and the AAS Space Flight Mechanics Committee.