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Computer Scientist Warren Hoburg Selected for NASA's Artemis Team
Warren Hoburg was an assistant professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT before joining NASA.
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Computer scientist Warren Hoburg was selected by NASA as one of 18 astronauts to form the Artemis Team for the agency's next astronaut missions on and around the Moon.
Hoburg earned a bachelor's degree in aeronautics and astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a doctorate in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California, Berkeley. Before joining NASA's 2017 Astronaut Candidate Class, he was an assistant professor at MIT and a seasonal member of the Yosemite Search and Rescue team.
Hoburg's research focused on efficient methods for design of engineering systems. His group produced and maintains the open-source software tool GPkit, a Python package for geometric programming. He is an author of "GPkit: A Human-Centered Approach to Convex Optimization in Engineering Design," published in CHI '20: Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
The astronauts of the Artemis Team will help NASA prepare for the coming Artemis missions, which begin next year working with the agency's commercial partners as they develop human landing systems; assisting in the development of training; defining hardware requirements; and consulting on technical development. They also will engage the public and industry on the Artemis program and NASA's exploration plans.
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