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Vandi Verma
Perseverance chief engineer for robotic operations and assistant section manager for mobility and robotic systems at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Vandi Verma is the Chief Engineer for Robotic Operations for the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover, and the Assistant Section Manager for Mobility and Robotics Systems at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She specializes in space robotics, autonomous robots and robotic operations. She has worked on a number of Space Robotics and Artificial Intelligence research and technology development tasks and has designed, developed, and operated rovers on Mars, the Arctic, Antarctica, and the Atacama Desert.
Latest Planetary Radio Appearances
How Perseverance drives itself around Mars
The Perseverance rover’s chief robotics engineer takes us for a spin across Mars.