Jim Butler serves as Program Manager for NASA’s High Performance Spaceflight Computing (HPSC) project at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. He brings extensive expertise in high-speed semiconductor development, spaceflight computing systems, and digital architecture to critical space technology initiatives

Thomas Lu, Ph.D., Senior Researcher in AI & Data Science at NASA/Jet Proportion Lab. He has been a Principal Investigator and Task Manager for numerous R&D projects spanning AI/ML architecture, algorithms, software and hardware systems. He has investigated multi-core processors, AI accelerators such as GPU/NPU/DSP for fault tolerant space edge-AI computing. He has served as an organizer and a program committee member for SPIE International Conferences, published one book, 2 book chapters, over 70 research papers and presentations in international conferences and journals, 6 patents, over 30 NASA New Technology Reports. He received a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University.