User:PlanetAakash/Bob Balaram

Bob Balaram is a NASA engineer and robotics technologist of an Indian origin working as principal member of technical Staff at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in mobility and robotic systems department. He is known for working as a chief engineer on NASA's Mars helicopter mission, that will serve as an aerial scout for Perseverance rover for mission Mars 2020.

Education
Bob has done Bachelor in Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology in 1980. After that he went to pursue Master of Science and Ph.D in Computer and Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York, and completed respectively in 1982 and 1985.

Career
At Jet propulsion laboratory, Balrama has been active in the area of telerobotics technology development for Mars Rovers, planetary balloon aerobot systems. Balaram's career also enlists working on technology for a notional balloon mission to explore Venus and as lead for the Mars Science Laboratory entry, descent and landing simulation software.