KEYNOTE—MEMS Aerospace Applications and Environments
BIOGRAPHY
Gary has a strong research focus on sensors designed for use in Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), Automated Driving (AD), and manned spaceflight Aerospace applications.
Gary began his career focused on sensors while working for Lockheed Space Operations at Kennedy Space Center, FL (from 1983-1992) as an electrical flight-systems engineer. His work responsibilities included installation, calibration, and test of sensor arrays on the Space Shuttle program. Gary worked in Motorola's Sensor Products Division (1993-2005) located in Tempe, AZ, where he was focused on sensor-based ASIC and Transducer R&D product development activities including Ford's first automotive airbag accelerometer. From 2005 to 2007, he led MEMS research activities and taught multiple graduate level analog and digital ASIC design courses as a professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. Gary worked at Bosch from 2009-2015 as Director of the MEMS Advanced Development Group (ADG) at the Research and Technology Center (RTC) located in Palo Alto, CA. Gary was the Advanced Engineering Global Engineering Director at Delphi Electronics and Safety (E&S) from 2015 to 2018.
Gary served from 8/2011 to 8/2018 as a Consulting Associate Professor at Stanford University in the Mechanical Engineering Department and as an instructor for graduate course ME429, "Commercial MEMS Design". Gary is currently serving at the Florida Institute of Technology as an Adjunct Professor instructing graduate course SPC5004, “Space Propulsion Systems”.
Gary is currently (2018-present) an Engineering Fellow at Northrop Grumman Space Systems working on manned spaceflight rocket propulsion and avionics systems located at Kennedy Space Center, FL.
Gary earned his BSEE from the Florida Institute of Technology, an MSEE from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan.