Edward Balaban
Edward Balaban is a research scientist at NASA Ames Research Center and is the NASA Principal Investigator for FLUTE project. His professional interests include robotics, autonomy, artificial intelligence, and development of innovative space missions. In addition to FLUTE, Edward is the lead for strategic mission planning on NASA’s Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) mission […]
Kerri Cahoy
Kerri Cahoy is the Sheila Evans Widnall 1960 Professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT. She received her BS degree (2000) in electrical engineering from Cornell University, and her MS (2002) and PhD (2008) degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University. She joined the MIT faculty in 2011 and leads the space […]
Supriya Chakrabarti
Presentation Title: Development and Validation of High-Contrast Imaging and Spectroscopic Technologies Abstract: At the University of Massachusetts Lowell, we continue to develop and mature optical technologies necessary for next discoveries in astrophysics and space physics. For astrophysical studies our recent focus has been on direct imaging of exoplanets in reflected visible light. We are also […]
Justin Deighan
Dr. Justin Deighan received his BS in Physics from The College of William and Mary in 2007, and his PhD in Engineering Physics from the University of Virginia in 2012. He currently holds the position of Research Scientist III at the Laboratory of Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at the University of Colorado Boulder. He […]
Baris Erkmen
Dr. Baris I. Erkmen has been active in development of advanced optical communication and sensing systems for over two decades. He is presently CTO for laser communication at Aalyria Technologies. Prior to Aalyria, Baris was the CEO of Hedron Space (2022-2023), developing an optical data-relay network for Earth-observation satellites. He was Engineering Director of Project […]
Kirit Karkare
Kirit Karkare is an assistant professor of physics at Boston University. As an experimental cosmologist, he builds detectors and telescopes to observe faint radiation from the Big Bang and the first stars and galaxies to form. He completed a B.S. at Caltech, a Ph.D. at Harvard, and was a postdoc at UChicago and a staff […]