Marsette Vona develops user interface software with a focus on robotic missions to Mars. He helped build the Science Activity Planner ground software for the Mars Exploration Rover mission and is currently lead developer for several Mars 2020 ground software subsystems including the Landform service for terrain reconstruction and visualization.
Vona has worked at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory twice, from 2001-03 and again from 2015-present. He was on the faculty of the College of Computer Science at Northeastern University from 2010-14, where he taught graphics, robotics, and introductory computer science courses and founded a robotics research group. Vona was the recipient of the NASA Software of the Year award in 2004 and the National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2012. He holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a B.A. from Dartmouth College.
The title of Marsette Vona’s talk: “Adaptive Resolution Terrain Reconstruction and 3D Visualization for Mars 2020”.
