Dr. Nelli Mosavi, Project Manager at the Space Exploration Sector at Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory

In the future, as formation and constellation flying increases, the need for automated operations in space applications will be essential. Stringent communications constraints such as limited communication windows, long communication latencies, system complexity, and many other factors will preclude direct human functions. Also, ground-based command and control systems will become more complex and may not provide sufficiently rapid corrective control commands. As we plan for autonomous operations, it is equally important to apply security and dependability to the end-to-end system to ensure the decisions made by space and ground assets are trustworthy.

Biography:

Dr. Nelli Mosavi is the Van Allen Probe Project Manager at the Space Exploration Sector at Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory. She is also the founder of Institute of Trusted Space Systems, a joint institute between APL and UMBC.

Dr. Mosavi is an Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Whiting School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins University and Adjunct Professor at University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She received a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Oakland University Michigan, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from The Johns Hopkins University and a Ph.D.  in Electrical Engineering  from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.