Team Members

Team Members

This page contains information about who our team members at the Bio-Inspired Technologies and Systems Group in the Avionic Equipment Section, Avionic Systems and Technology Division, Engineering and Science Directorate at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory located in Pasadena, CA.

	Dr. Adrian Stoica(PI)
	Dr. Didier Keymeulen(Co-PI)
	Dr. Ricardo Zebulum(Co-PI)
	Taher Daud

Core Team

Dr. Adrian Stoica, PI

Principal Member of Technical Staff

Phone:(818) 354-2190

Adrian.Stoica@jpl.nasa.gov
CV, Publications, PhD Citation

Adrian Stoica (Dipl Ing. TUI Iasi, Romania, PhD VUT Melbourne, Australia) is a Principal in the Biologically Inspired Technology and Systems Group in the Autonomous Systems Division at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California. He leads JPL research in the areas of Evolvable Systems, Humanoids Robotics and Integrated Circuits Security. He has over 20 years of management of advanced R&D and leadership in innovation and development of new technology in electronics and information systems, robotics and automation, learning and adaptive systems. His research interests and expertise are in the areas of advanced electronics (extreme environment electronics, self-reconfigurable, adaptive and evolvable hardware, adaptive computing devices, sensor fusion hardware), secure electronics (obfuscation techniques for protection from reverse engineering, trusted integrated circuits and biometrics protected ICs), biometrics (embedded and multi-modal), artificial intelligence algorithms (automated circuit design, search/optimization techniques, learning techniques, genetic algorithms, neural networks, fuzzy systems), and robotics (robot learning, humanoid robots, autonomous systems). He has over 100 papers and 4 patents in these areas, is serving in the editorial board of several journals in the field, gave invited keynote addresses and tutorials at conferences. He taught the first Evolvable Hardware short course (UCLA Extension, 2003) and started two annual conferences: the NASA/DOD Conference in Evolvable Hardware in 1999, and the ASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems in 2006. He received the Lew Allen Award for Excellence (highest NASA/JPL award for excellence in research) in 1999, and the Tudor Tanasescu Prize of the Romanian Academy in 2001.

Dr. Didier Keymeulen, Co-PI

Senior Member of Technical Staff

Phone: (818) 354-4280

Didier.Keymeulen@jpl.nasa.gov

Didier Keymeulen is a Research Engineer at JPL. His interests are in complex dynamical systems applied to the design of adaptive embedded systems such as mobile robots. He was the Belgium laureate of the Japanese JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship for Foreign Researchers and he was working at the Electrotechnical Laboratory in the Evolvable Hardware group of Dr. Higuchi (Tsukuba, Japan) before joining JPL. He obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. He has published more than 30 papers in journals and conferences in these areas.

Dr. Ricardo Zebulum, Co-PI

Senior Member of Technical Staff
Phone: (818) 354-7623

Ricardo.S.Zebulum@jpl.nasa.gov

Ricardo S. Zebulum is a Research Engineer at JPL. He received his Bachelor degree in Electronic Engineering in 1992, his Msc. in Electrical Engineering in 1995, and his PhD in Electrical Engineering in 1999, all of them at the Catholic University of Rio, Brazil. He stayed two years at Sussex University, from 1997 to 1999, as a visiting PhD student. He has been involved with research in Evolvable Hardware since 1996. His research interests also include Artificial Neural Networks, Fuzzy systems; fault-tolerant systems, low power electronics and analog VLSI design.

Dr. Taher Daud

Senior Member of Technical Staff

Phone:(818) 354-5782

Taher.Daud@jpl.nasa.gov

Taher Daud is a Group Leader and Senior Engineer at JPL. He received his BS degree in electrical engineering from the University of Jabalpur, India, and MS and Ph.D. in solid-state electronics in 1976 and 1979 respectively from the University of California, Los Angeles, California. He joined the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 1976 and worked on the development of high efficiency silicon technologies for solar cells, infrared sensors, CCDs for NASA's WF/PC program. Since 1987 he has worked on the electronic implementation of neural networks and analog parallel processing devices and is presently involved in evolvable hardware effort. He has published/presented over 70 papers, and has authored several patents.