Research

This page contains a curated list of my major research projects. I manually update this so it may be out-of-date. For the most up-to-date list of research and publications please see my Google Scholar page.

AI Safety Red-Teaming AI Safety

Automated red-teaming methods for failure discovery and safety validation of AI systems, with applications to language models and safety-critical domains including cybersecurity and mental health.

ASTPrompter: Weakly Supervised Automated Language Model Red-Teaming to Identify Low-Perplexity Toxic Prompts
Amelia F. Hardy, Houjun Liu, Bernard Lange, Duncan Eddy, Mykel J. Kochenderfer
EMNLP, 2025

Satellite Task Planning Satellite SchedulingOptimization

Algorithms for scheduling and task planning in Earth-observing satellite constellations, combining maximum independent set methods and Markov decision processes to optimize image collection across large satellite networks.

Satellite Task Planning
A Maximum Independent Set Method for Scheduling Earth-Observing Satellite Constellations
Duncan Eddy and Mykel Kochenderfer
AIAA Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, 2021
Markov Decision Processes for Multi-Objective Satellite Task Planning
Duncan Eddy and Mykel Kochenderfer
IEEE Aerospace Conference, 2020

Ground Station Optimization Satellite SchedulingOptimization

Integer programming approaches for selecting optimal ground station networks for low-Earth orbiting satellites, minimizing cost while maximizing data downlink coverage.

Ground Station Optimization
Optimal Ground Station Selection for Low-Earth Orbiting Satellites
Duncan Eddy, Michelle Ho, and Mykel Kochenderfer
IEEE Aerospace Conference, 2025

SAR Remote Sensing Remote Sensing

Development and operation of the Capella X-Band synthetic aperture radar satellite constellation, the first US commercial SAR constellation capable of delivering rapid, high-resolution imagery on demand.

The Capella X-Band SAR Constellation for Rapid Imaging
Craig Stringham, Gordon Farquharson, Davide Castelletti, Eric Quist, Lucas Riggi, Duncan Eddy, and Scott Soenen
IGARSS - International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2019