Rebekah Austin is a Ph.D. candidate in Electrical Engineering at Vanderbilt University. Her research interest focuses on incorporating risk tolerance into radiation hardness assurance methods. Her research has been applied to improving the reliability of small satellites and CubeSats, specifically related to radiation effects of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) parts. She has also used her work in evaluating radiation effects in CubeSats to bridge radiation hardness assurance activities and Model-Based System Engineering (MBSE) activities to develop System Engineering and Assurance Modeling (SEAM), a web-based platform for assuring systems against the space radiation environment. Rebekah is also working on incorporating radiation environment uncertainty into single-event effect calculations. She has also developed radiation effects experiments for CubeSats and 3 copies of her experiment were launched in Nov. 2018 and continue to operate.
Rebekah received her B.E. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Vanderbilt University in 2014 and 2016 and is expecting to receive her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Vanderbilt University in Dec. 2019.
Link: System Engineering and Assurance Modeling (SEAM) Web-Based Platform