SPACE-LOGISTICS - Key Persons
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- Member of the Research and Administrative Staff
- Research Scientist
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- Member of the Research and Administrative Staff
- Research Scientist, September 2009 - Present
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- Member of the Research and Administrative Staff
- Research Scientist, June 2009 - Present
Postdoctoral Associate, October 2002 - June 2004
Ph.D. from Korea Advanced Institute for Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, South Korea
Research Area: Multidisciplinary Design Optimization, Design of mechanical and biomechanical systems
Current Position: Dr. Kim is currently a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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Contact: iykim@me.queensu.ca
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- Member of the Research and Administrative Staff
- Postdoctoral Associate, June 2014 - Present
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- Principal System Engineer / Economist / Mission and Systems
- Principal System Engineer and Economist in the Mission and System Architecture Section of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Robert Shishko is currently a Principal System Engineer and Economist in the Mission and System Architecture Section of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California Institute of Technology. Dr. Shishko received two S.B. degrees from MIT (1968), and his M.Phil. (1970) and Ph.D. (1972) in economics from Yale University. He has been at JPL since 1983, and is currently working to improve the practice of systems analysis and engineering at JPL and across NASA. He has worked on the International Space Station and Mars Pathfinder mission, and was one of the "founding fathers" of JPL's Project Design Center. Dr. Shishko served as task manager and principal contributor to the NASA Systems Engineering Handbook, for which he received the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal in 1996. Prior to coming to JPL, Dr. Shishko worked at the Rand Corporation (1970-1983) on a variety of defense resource allocation and logistics issues. He has been an adjunct Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Southern California. He has served on the part-time faculty of the International Space University (Strasbourg, France) and is an occasional visiting lecturer in systems engineering at MIT.
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- Administrative Staff
- Assistant Professor at the Industrial Engineering School
- Visiting Fellow, February - July 2005
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- Member of the Research and Administrative Staff
- Postdoctoral Researcher, June 2013 - Present
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- Member of the Research and Administrative Staff
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- Visiting Fellow, August 2006 - March 2007
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- Swiss Air Force Officer, 1987 - 2000
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- Member of the Research and Administrative Staff
- Research Scientist, January 2012 - Present
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- President / Payload Systems Inc.
- President of Payload Systems Inc.
Joe Parrish is the President of Payload Systems Inc., an aerospace engineering company based in Cambridge, MA. Payload Systems provides science and engineering solutions to a variety of customers in academia, government, and industry. Since it's founding in 1984, Payload Systems has launched over 25 payloads into space on the Space Shuttle, Soyuz, Mir, and the International Space Station. Mr. Parrish is currently the Principal Investigator for the SPHERES Mars Orbital Sample Retrieval (MOSR), Murine Automated Urinalysis System (MAUS), Contained Sample Handling and Analysis System (CSHAS), and Self-Assembling Wireless Autonomously-Reconfigurable Modules (SWARM) projects. Prior to joining Payload Systems, Mr. Parrish was an aerospace engineer, project manager, and program manager at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC, where he served as the Space Station Robotic System Architect (1991-1993), Ranger Telerobot Shuttle Experiment Project Manager (1993-1999), and Mars Exploration Program Executive (2000-2002). In his last assignment at NASA Headquarters, he was responsible for the Mars Scouts, Mars Sample Return, and Mars Mobile Science Laboratory Missions. Mr. Parrish is a past member on Mars Program System Engineering Team, the Mars Technology Program Review Panel, and the NASA Planetary Surface Access Capabilities Roadmapping Team. Mr. Parrish holds Bachelors and Masters degrees in Aerospace Engineering from MIT.
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- Administrative Assistant to Professor Olivier De Weck in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
- Assistant in Aero Astro
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- Analyst in the Systems Engineering & Integration Division of the Engineering Development Directorate
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ), KennedySpaceCenter ( KSC )
Martin Steele is a simulation analyst in the Systems Engineering & Integration division of the Engineering Development Directorate at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC), FL. He has over 25 years of professional and military experience in space systems engineering and operations, primarily at KSC and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAS). He has held a variety of positions in systems and project engineering and management in the Shuttle and Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) programs, as well as in facility and ground systems development and operations. He obtained a B.S. (1981) in Electrical Engineering from Ohio Northern University, and a M.S. (2001) in Simulation Modeling and Analysis and Ph.D. (2002) in Industrial Engineering from the University of Central Florida (UCF). In his current position, he is leading the development of specific and generally applicable simulation models of launch vehicle processing, payload processing, and supply chain management. He has published 10 papers on simulation modeling and space systems operations. He is also an Adjunct Professor in the Industrial Engineering and Management Systems Department of the UCF.
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- Space Flight Center, Visiting Scientist, 1998 / Co - Founder, Intelligent Action Inc., 2007 - Present
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- Associate Professor of Aeronautics & Astronautics and Engineering Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems / Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Prof. de Weck is an Associate Professor of Aeronautics & Astronautics and Engineering Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is an expert in strategic engineering of complex systems (http://strategic.mit.edu) and in multidisciplinary optimization. He has over 15 years of academic, professional and military experience in Aerospace Engineering. Systems he worked on during design, manufacturing and operations include the Northrop F-5, McDonnell Douglas F/A-18, the NASA James Web Space Telescope, the Space Interferometry Mission and the Terrestrial Planet Finder mission. He obtained a graduate degree in industrial engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) in 1993, which included training in project and supply chain management.
He earned S.M. (1999) and Ph.D. degrees in Aerospace Systems from MIT in 2001. For several years he worked as a liaison engineer and later engineering program manager on the F/A-18 fighter aircraft program in St. Louis, MO (1993-1997).
This included coordinating logistics activities and managing a $20 million technology development and transfer program with over 250 participants. He is affiliated with the Space Systems Laboratory (SSL) at MIT. He is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets.
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- Professor of Engineering Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
David Simchi-Levi is a Professor of Engineering Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research focuses on developing and implementing robust and efficient techniques for logistics systems. He has published widely in professional journals on both practical and theoretical aspects of logistics and supply chain management. He is the founder and chairman of LogicTools, a software company focusing on developing decision support systems for solving logistics and supply chain management problems. These systems have been used widely to reduce cost and improve service level in large-scale logistics systems. He is the co-author (with Julien Bramel) of The Logic of Logistics: Theory, Algorithms and Applications for Logistics Management, published by Springer in 1997. His new book, Designing and Managing the Supply Chain: Concepts, Strategies and Case Studies was published by Irwin/McGraw-Hill in August 1999 and the Second Edition in 2002. The book received the Book-of-the-Year Award and the Outstanding IIE Publication award given in 2000 by the Institute of Industrial Engineers. He has also developed a computerized system for School Bus Routing in New York City for the NYC Board of Education. He is editor-in-Chief of the Naval Research Logistics Quarterly journal.