IEEE Fellow "for leadership in neural and parallel computation, and pioneering contributions to autonomous space robots". World-leading eng professional with extensive hands-on exp.in Sys/Arch Research, Design, Development, Verification, Validation, Test, Integration & Deployment of extremely complex eng. systems at start-ups, global corp., & national labs incl. DoD, NASA, ESA, DLR, CNES, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, SAIC, Spacedev, Airbus, HP-Agilent, Broadcom, Conexant, Intel-Windriver, Siemens. Outstanding presentation & comm. skills.• CTO, Chief Technologist/Consultant/Engineer, President, Director, Professor, 10 yrs. at natl. lab.• Working with NASA & DoD space: Space Force, USAF, USN's SPAWAR & their contractors. Currently (2023) in hardware eng. On mil space on the design & verification of space SoCs of the U.S. next gen. overhead persistent infrared (OPI) program mission-critical payloads, geo later polar, NGG/P. Protection of U.S. & allies against incoming threats relies on accurate detection & tracking of ballistic & hypersonic missiles' signatures & the built-in vulnerabilities resiliency against counterspace & cyberattacks.• designed NASA's new gen. of fully autonomous space robotic systems & missions incl. deep space, Mars autonomous aerial vehicles based on advanced, innovative system design, operational flight sw, mission-critical, real-time SoC & hw algorithmics since 2022.• designed NASA's SLS avionics & flight sw, req. at all levels incl. IVVA at NASA MSFC to return to the Moon, Mars, & beyond.• designed the most advanced spacecraft ever built at NASA JPL to fly to Jupiter Moons & Pluto.• designed complete missions to Mars, spacecraft avionics & flight software for NASA, co-started ESA's Mars program, designed operational communication sat & earth observation sat.• led research & tech development for NASA-ESA-DLR STS-55 flight of Spaceshuttle / Spacelab in space robotic vision & control, all spaceborne modes demonstrated with US & European astronauts from teleoperation to full autonomy incl. hybrid, symbiotic control by human & artificial brains.• led advanced classified DoD avionics program dev. (sw, hw, algorithms, DSP, RF, GPS, INS, RTOS).• led start-up within 1 year to fast growth to 70 eng. & successful acquisition at U.S.$ 1/3 Billion.• led product dev. at Siemens, HP, Cybernetics, Broadcom, Conexant, Windriver.• youngest IEEE Fellow (“Nobel”-Prize in engineering) worldwide ever, NASA national award winner.• launched & led 15 yr. (50+ vol.) Elsevier Science AI/ML journal as Editor-in-Chief.