Dr. Edward Lu
Executive Director Asteroid Institute
B612 Co-founder, Former NASA Astronaut, astrophysicist
B612 Co-founder, Former NASA Astronaut, astrophysicist
Our Asteroid Institute is a B612 program which collaborates with major institutions around the world working on asteroid related projects including research, science, and technologies. Our leadership drives strategy and operations and the Board of Directors oversees our long-term vision. Our Founding Circle, Asteroid Circle and global community of donors make our work possible.
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Strategic Advisor
Carise Fernandez
Carise is the lead software engineer at B612, bringing experience in cloud engineering to ADAM. Carise was formerly a software engineer at Google, developing a security product in Google Cloud Platform to detect malicious activity in real-time. Prior to B612 and Google, Carise led product...
John Carrico
Throughout his career, John has designed and developed mission planning algorithms and software, and worked as an astrogator: planning missions, designing trajectories, and tracking spacecraft. He has worked on flight dynamics mission analysis, operations, development, and systems integration. John has supported several operational Earth and...
Hank Grabowski
Hank co-founded and became CTO of Applied Defense Solutions (ADS) in 2005 after working on the core development team for Analytical Graphics (AGI) for several years. Through his 20+ year career he combined his in-depth knowledge of aerospace engineering and software engineering to design and...
Rick Armstrong
Son of Astronaut Neil Armstrong, Rick has proudly continued his father’s legacy of giving back through his own philanthropy and by representing the Armstrong family. Rick earned a B.A. in Biology from Wittenberg University with a concentration in marine biology. He worked for a number...
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As the company grew, Tito empowered each and every member of the team, regardless of their role, to support the causes they were passionate about in their local communities.
Harold Reitsema
Harold is a planetary astronomer with more than 30 years experience specializing in the design and building of interplanetary spacecraft and astronomical imaging detectors. During his tenure at Ball Aerospace, he led design teams for Hubble Space Telescope, was the principal investigator for NASA Planetary...
Jensen Huang
Jensen Huang founded NVIDIA in 1993 and has served since its inception as president, chief executive officer and a member of the board of directors.
Emmie King
Emmie is supporting the ADAM project. As a software engineer with Space Exploration Engineering (SEE) she works to understand...
Dr. Siegfried Eggl
Siegfried is a research scientist at the University of Washington and Asteroid Institute collaborator.
Aaron Xue
Operates Chinese subsidiaries of global high-tech companies including Compaq, Rackable, & SGI.
Kathleen Kiker
Kathleen Kiker is part of the ADAM software engineering team. Kathleen’s prior research focused on Black Hole formation using Cloudy simulation software. She is skilled in a range of programming, modelling, and graphing tools to solve physics problems. Previously at Lockheed Martin, she led the...