Planning and Scheduling Group
Autonomous Systems and Robotics Area
Code TI
NASA Ames Research Center
Position and Bio
I am an employee of NASA at NASA Ames Research Center. I work in Code TI in the Autonomous Systems and Robotics area, and am Group Lead of the Planning and Scheduling Group.I completed my PhD in Computer Science at U.C. Davis. I also have a BA in Mathematics from Pomona College and a MS in Computer Science from U.C. Davis. My academic interests include Artificial Intelligence, particularly planning, scheduling and combinatorial optimization and search. My recreational interests include ceramics, photography, cooking, story readings, gaming, mathematics, and history. I am married with 2 children.
I am the Principal Investigator of the Automation for Operations (A4O) project. The project builds advanced prototypes for manned spaceflight mission operations, in preparation for the next generation of lunar exploration.
Automated Flight Planning for the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA)
Game Theoretic Scheduling of Deep Space Network
Extensible Universal Remote Operations Architecture (EUROPA)