Who's Who: Aerospace
Jim Heidmann, Project Manager for NASA’s Advanced Air Transport Technology Project, and Jason Welstead, Aerospace Engineer
Jim Heidmann of Glenn Research Center (Cleveland, OH) and Jason Welstead of Langley Research Center (Hampton, VA) have led NASA efforts to develop all-electric and hybrid-electric designs for large passenger aircraft....
Who's Who: Software
Dave McNally, Aerospace Engineer, Air Traffic Management, and Kapil Sheth, Aerospace Research Engineer, Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California
Convective weather, such as severe thunderstorm activity, is the leading cause of delay in the U.S. National Airspace System. Two NASA-developed tools – the Dynamic Weather Routes (DWR) tool...
Who's Who: Aerospace
MEET NASA'S PLANETARY PROTECTION OFFICER
As NASA plans launches to Mars, Europa, and beyond, the agency's Office of Planetary Protection ensures that the environments are shielded against contamination, especially bacteria and microbes from...
Who's Who: Green Design & Manufacturing
Dr. Catherine A. Conley, Planetary Protection Officer, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC
As NASA plans launches to Mars, Europa, and beyond, the agency's Office of Planetary Protection ensures that the environments are shielded against...
Who's Who: Materials
Dr. Santo A. Padula, Materials Research Engineer, Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH
Dr. Santo Padula has developed testing techniques to support the development of advanced materials like metallic foams and shape memory alloys (SMAs)....
Who's Who: Aerospace
Al Bowers, Chief Scientist, Armstrong Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA
Al Bowers is the program manager of Preliminary Research Aerodynamic Design to Lower Drag, or Prandtl-d. The project’s researchers validated elements of a...
Who's Who: Green Design & Manufacturing
Amy Keith, Environmental Engineer, Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL
Environmental engineer Amy Keith and her team developed a low-cost detector of contaminants in plants and surrounding groundwater. The non-destructive technology...
Who's Who: Materials
Kenneth O’Connor, Coatings Engineer, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
Kenneth O’Connor has worked with NASA Goddard engineers to develop a nanotextured coating with hydrophobic properties. The technology minimizes dust, liquid,...
Who's Who: Materials
Walt Bruce, Convective Heating for Improvement for Emergency Fire Shelters (CHIEFS) Senior Engineer and Anthony Calomino, Materials and Structures Engineer
After a 2013 wildfire led to the loss of 19 elite Arizona firefighters, Langley...
Who's Who: Robotics, Automation & Control
Kimberly Hambuchen, Deputy Project Manager, Human Robotics System Project, Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX
Kim Hambuchen is currently building user interfaces for Vakyrie, a six-foot-two, 286-pound humanoid robot. The two-legged Valkyrie...
Who's Who: Robotics, Automation & Control
Kurt Leucht, Command & Control Software Developer, Kennedy Space Center, Florida
Project Lead Kurt Leucht has spent recent months testing the software of NASA's "Swarmie" robots. Using an evolving genetic algorithm, the robots operate as...
Who's Who: Aerospace
Dr. David W. Miller, Chief Technologist, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC
Dr. David Miller began his term as the NASA chief technologist on March 17, 2014. He currently serves as the agency’s principal advisor and advocate on NASA...
Who's Who: Test & Measurement
Emily Wilson, Scientist, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
Emily Wilson developed a miniaturized laser heterodyne radiometer (mini-LHR) to measure the emissions of carbon dioxide and methane from melting permafrost. Wilson’s...
Who's Who: Robotics, Automation & Control
Carolyn Parcheta, NASA Postdoctoral Fellow, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
A geologist by training, Carolyn Parcheta had an idea in July of 2013 to develop a robot that explores and measures the shape of volcanic fissures. She...
Who's Who: Materials
David Blake, Senior Research Scientist, Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
David Blake developed the Chemistry and Mineralogy (CheMin) X-ray diffraction instrument that is currently deployed on the Mars Science Laboratory rover...
Who's Who: Materials
Susan Draper, Materials Research Engineer, Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH
Susan Draper performs microstructural analysis of metals and determines where fractures have occurred and propagated. Draper is currently characterizing...
Brian Trease, JPL Mechanical Engineer, uses origami principles to design large-scale and small-scaled deployable structures. In 2013, Trease collaborated...
Who's Who: Materials
Jeff Ding, Aerospace Welding Engineer, Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL
Jeff Ding developed Ultrasonic Stir Welding (USW) to join large pieces of very high‑strength metals, such as titanium and Inconel. The solid-state weld process improves the current Thermal Stir Welding process by adding high-power ultrasonic (HPU) energy at 20...
Who's Who: Photonics/Optics
Jason Moore, Fiber Optic Sensors Engineer, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA
Jason Moore has worked at NASA Langley since 1995. He currently tests and develops fiber optic technologies, including multicore fibers. He is actively...
Who's Who: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Dr. Ajay Koshti, Lead Nondestructive Evaluation Engineer, Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX
Dr. Ajay Koshti, Lead Nondestructive Evaluation Engineer, invented NASA Flash Infrared Thermography Software. Koshti also worked as a Non-Destructive...
Who's Who: Aerospace
Scott Jensen, Aerospace Technologist (AST) Electronics Engineer, Stennis Space Center, Mississippi
Scott Jensen and his team developed the Valve Health Monitoring System (VHMS), a technology designed for detecting deterioration in the...
Who's Who: Photonics/Optics
Dr. Keith Gendreau, Principal Investigator, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
Dr. Keith Gendreau is the principal investigator of the upcoming Neutron star Interior Composition ExploreR (NICER) mission. He was the 2011 Innovator of...
Who's Who: Materials
Dr. Mary Ann Meador, Senior Research Scientist, Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH
Dr. Mary Ann Meador, Senior Research Scientist at NASA Glenn Research Center, guides projects that will synthesize new types of aerogels. Her research has...
Who's Who: Aerospace
Michelle Munk, Principal Investigator, Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA
Michelle Munk is Entry, Descent and Landing Principal Investigator for the Space Technology Mission Directorate. Most recently, Munk was the subsystem lead and the Deputy Project Manager for the Mars Science Laboratory Entry, Descent, and Landing Instrumentation (MEDLI)...
Who's Who: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Kenneth Dudley, Senior Researcher, Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA
Kenneth Dudley is a researcher in the Electromagnetics and Sensors Branch at NASA's Langley Research Center. His project team currently focuses on the testing and...
Who's Who: Physical Sciences
Dr. Vadim Smelyanskiy, Principal Scientist, Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
Dr. Vadim Smelyanskiy is a principal scientist for physics-based methods in the Exploration Technology Directorate at NASA Ames Research Center. During his tenure at NASA, he has been the principal investigator on several projects funded by NASA and other...
Who's Who: Aerospace
Tom Flatley, Computer Engineer, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
Tom Flatley, computer engineer and current head of the Science Data Processing Branch at Goddard Space Flight Center, leads a group of engineers and programmers in...
Who's Who: Aerospace
David Wing, Air Traffic Management Researcher, Langley Research Center, Hampton VA
David Wing is the principal investigator for the Traffic Aware Strategic Aircrew Requests (TASAR) concept and software application. The cockpit technology,...
Who's Who: Aerospace
Jim Lux, Task Manager, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
Jim Lux is task manager on FINDER (Finding Individuals for Disaster and Emergency Response), a portable radar device that detects heartbeats and breathing of victims trapped...
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