James Brouk received his PhD in Aerospace Engineering from Texas A&M University in 2024 where he worked with Dr. Kyle DeMars. His doctoral research primarily focused on robust and precise capabilities for feature-based, terrain relative navigation. By leveraging new concepts for nonlinear filtering that intrinsically address non-standard error sources in a model-based manner, a novel approach to filtering that can implicitly address many critical error sources and retain precise estimation performance was introduced. James received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Missouri University of Science and Technology in 2017 and 2019, respectively.