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Appendix B: Committee and Panel Members Biographies
Appendix B: Committee and Panel Members Biographies
Pages 104-114
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As manager of the Risk Management Program, Office of Safety and Mission Assurance, NASA Headquarters, he pioneered NASA's probabilistic approach to risk assessment in the post-Challenger era. He directed the initial probabilistic risk assessments for the space shuttle and presented workshops on risk assessment processes and consulted on risk assessment methods for NASA programs at most of the field centers.
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Proposals in Propulsion in 2003. As an aerospace consultant, his present involvements include advanced solid rocket propulsion systems, electric propulsion, energetic materials, combustion, and ignition in high-speed flows.
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Welliver Faculty Fellowship. He has 228 refereed and conference publications and serves on many national boards and committees, including as deputy director for AIAA's Aircraft Technology, Integration and Operations Group, chair of the AIAA's Aircraft Design Technical Committee, editor of the International Society of Parametric Analysts' Journal of Parametrics, and member of AIAA's Air Transportation and Operation Technology Committee and its Missile Systems Technical Committee.
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Mr. Odom served at NASA for 33 years and was directly involved in several of NASA's major projects, including the Hubble Space Telescope, the space shuttle, the Apollo program, and the space station Freedom.
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Dr. Cohen is currently an associate editor for the journal Machine Learning, has served as the action editor for the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, co-organized the 1994 International Machine Learning Conference, and has served on more than 20 program committees or advisory committees.
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He is a consultant on communications satellite technology and systems and telecommunications equipment for customers that include satellite manufacturers, satellite system operators, communications equipment developers, and investment bankers. Before this, he was director of AT&T Skynet Satellite Communications Laboratory, with responsibility for AT&T satellite technology, including satellite service development, satellite ground equipment development, satellite design and development, and oversight of satellite manufacture, test, launch, and operations.
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and he joined in 1986 with colleague NATO and Fulbright research fellowships; an Alexander von Humboldt Senior-Scientist Award; the University of California Berkeley Citation (1994~; Stevens Institute of Technology Renaissance Award (1995~; the Transducers Research Conference Career Achievement Award (1997) , the IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award (with Roger T
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in computer science from the University of Toronto in 1978 and has been a staff research scientist at Bolt Bernanek and Newman, the Fairchild Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence, and SRI International.
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Prior to founding Vulcan Works, he worked at Ford Motor Company from 1976 until 1999. During his time at Ford, he served as chief engineer for a number of different departments within Ford Motor Company, including automatic transmission engineering, vehicle engineering at the Small and Medium Vehicle Center, and automotive chassis engineering, and as the director for Product and Manufacturing Systems for car product development.
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During this period he also evaluated potential applications for advanced launch and space propulsion systems, including advanced chemical rocket propulsion, nuclear rocket propulsion, electric propulsion, and photon propulsion.
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, Space Vehicles Directorate, at Kirtland Air Force Base since October 2002. He was previously the deputy chief of the Spacecraft Propulsion Branch and Group Leader of the Electric Propulsion Laboratory of the Air Force Research Laboratory, Propulsion Directorate, at Edwards Air Force Base in California, where he directed advanced engineering development for two flight payloads: a propulsive attitude control flight demo on FalconSat3 and the micropropulsion flight demo on TechSat21.
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