Junhyung Park

Junhyung Park received the B.S. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the United States Air Force Academy, USAF Academy, CO, USA, in 2025. He is pursuing the S.M. degree in aeronautics and astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA.

He is currently an active-duty Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force, serving as a Draper Scholar at Draper Laboratory in Cambridge, MA, and a Military Fellow at MIT Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington, MA. Previously, he served as a Tactical Power Generation Specialist in the Ohio Army National Guard and worked as a full-stack developer at TalkMeUp and Appddiction Studio. His research interests include autonomous systems, low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite signals of opportunity, and alternative positioning, navigation, and timing (Alt-PNT).

Lt. Park currently serves as an Institute Representative for the Graduate Student Council (GSC) and an Officer-at-Large for the Graduate Association of Aeronautics and Astronautics (GA^3) at MIT. In 2025, he was designated a Distinguished Graduate of the United States Air Force Academy and received the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Information Directorate Award. In 2026, he received the 2nd Place Best Poster Award at the Draper Scholar Research Symposium for his work on adaptive UAV navigation using LEO signals and placed 3rd at the Code Metal Forge Hackathon.