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Professional Bio

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Academic Experience

2023-Present

Assistant Professor, University of Colorado Boulder

Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences

​Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research (CCAR)

2021-2023

Assistant Professor of Physics, Naval Postgraduate School

Faculty Affiliate, Space Systems Academic Group, Naval Postgraduate School

2020-2021

Technical Staff, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Lincoln Laboratory, Airborne Radar Systems and Techniques Group

2015-2020

Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Electrical Engineering

Dissertation: “Passive Radar Sounding for Terrestrial and Planetary Glaciology” advised by Dustin M. Schroeder.

2015-2017

Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

Master of Science (M.S.) in Electrical Engineering

2011-2015

Rice University, Houston, TX, USA

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Cum Laude

First-Author Publications

S.T. Peters, T.M. Roberts, K. Nessly, D.M. Schroeder, A. Romero-Wolf (2022).  Revisiting the Limits of Spatial Coherence for Passive Radar Sounding Using Radio-Astronomical Sources, 2022 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Proceedings (In Press)

S.T. Peters, D.M. Schroeder, W. Chu, M. Haynes, P. Christoffersen, A. Romero-Wolf (2021). Glaciological Monitoring Using the Sun as a Radio Source for Echo Detection, Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2021GL092450. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL092450

S.T. Peters, D.M. Schroeder, D. Castelletti, M. Haynes, A. Romero-Wolf (2021). Passive Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging Using Radio-Astronomical Sources, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 59 (11), 9144-9159, DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2021.3050429

S.T. Peters, D.M. Schroeder, A. Romero-Wolf (2021). Adaptive single-channel direct signal suppression for ambient noise passive radar sounding, 2021 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Proceedings, pp. 7912-7915, doi: 10.1109/IGARSS47720.2021.9554427

S.T. Peters, D.M. Schroeder, A. Romero-Wolf (2020). Passive Radio Sounding to Correct for Europa's Ionospheric Distortion of VHF Signals, Planetary and Space Science, Volume 187, 104925, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pss.2020.104925

S.T. Peters, D.M. Schroeder, D. Castelletti, M. Haynes, A. Romero-Wolf (2019). Two-Dimensional Image Formation with Passive Radar Using the Sun for Echo Detection, 2019 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Proceedings, pp. 10091-10094, doi: 10.1109/IGARSS.2019.8897880. (IGARSS Best Student Paper, 2nd Place)

S.T. Peters, D.M. Schroeder, D. Castelletti, M. Haynes, A. Romero-Wolf (2018). In-Situ Demonstration of a Passive Radio Sounding Approach Using the Sun for Echo Detection, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 56, no. 12, pp. 7338-7349, Dec. 2018, doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2018.2850662.

S.T. Peters, D.M. Schroeder, D. Castelletti, M. Haynes, A. Romero-Wolf (2018). First In-Situ Demonstration of Passive Radio Sounding Using the Sun as a Source for Echo Detection, 2018 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Proceedings,, pp. 4154-4157, doi: 10.1109/IGARSS.2018.8517970.

Selected Grants & Awards

2021

Symposium Prize Paper Award, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society

2020

Stanford Vice Provost Graduate Education Academic Achievement Award

2020

LATinE: Latinx Trailblazers in Engineering Fellow

2019

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Student Prize Paper Award

2018

Stanford Diversifying Academia, Recruiting Excellence (DARE) Fellowship

2017

AGU Cryosphere Flash Freeze Innovation Award​

2016

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship​

2015

GEM Ph.D. in Engineering Associate Fellowship

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