JEREMY FRANK

Dr. Jeremy Frank is an employee of NASA at NASA Ames Research Center. He works in Code TI in the Autonomous Systems and Robotics area. He is Group Lead of the Planning and Scheduling Group, an organization of 20 researchers and staff that designs and builds space mission operations tools. Dr. Frank has an MS and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of California (Davis). He also has a BA in Mathematics from Pomona College. Dr. Frank’s research interests include combinatorial optimization, operations research, artificial intelligence, applied to the automation of space mission operations.

Dr. Frank has successfully led and participated in several research and development projects during his 10 years at NASA. These efforts include EUROPA, a toolkit for building automated planning and scheduling systems; automated observation scheduling of SOFIA, an airborne infrared telescope facility; and automated communication plan validation for International Space Station operations. He has received several awards, including a NASA Group Achievement Award for participation in the NASA Smart Buyer Team. Presently, Dr. Frank is the Principal Investigator of the Automation for Operations (A4O) Project, a NASA Exploration Technology Development Program project that develops advanced technology prototypes for NASA’s Constellation Program.

Dr. Frank is an active member of the academic research community. He has served on the Program Committee for many conferences, including the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, and the International Conference on the Principles and Practices of Constraint Programming. He has served as chair and mentor of Doctoral Consortia for the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, and the International Conference on the Principles and Practices of Constraint Programming.