His research is funded by ARO, AFOSR, NASA, JPL, JDTIC, and ONR, in the areas of aerial robotics, flight controls of MAV/UAVs, spacecraft controls and spacecraft swarms, and vision-based navigation. His honors include the first place prize in the AIAA national undergraduate team space design competition (as faculty advisor), AFOSR Young Investigator Award, NASA JPL Summer Faculty Fellow (twice), and two best paper awards from IEEE and AIAA.