Biography
Senior Systems Engineer, SETI Institute NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California.SOFIA Science Instrument Software Interface Lead
Major Awards
- NASA Group Achievement Award, SOFIA Program, for its first deployment to the southern hemisphere, 2014.
- NASA Ames Honor Award, SOFIA Science Software Development Team, 2012.
- NASA Group Achievement Award, Ames First-Ever Tweetup Team, 2011.
- NASA Software of the Year Award, Kepler Science Operations Center (SOC) Science Pipeline (Release 6.0), 2010.
- NASA Group Achievement Award, Kepler Science Operations Center, 2010.
- NASA Group Achievement Award, Kepler Launch and Commissioning Team, 2010.
- NASA Ames Honor Award, Kepler Science Operations Center Team, 2009-2010.
- NASA Ames Honor Award, Kepler Launch and Commissioning Team, 2009.
Publications
- P. Tenenbaum et al, Detection of Potential Transit Signals in 16 Quarters of Kepler Mission Data, Astrophysical Journal Supplement 211:6, February, 2014.
- E. B. Ford et al, Transit Timing Observations from Kepler. II. Confirmation of Two Multiplanet Systems via a Non-parametric Correlation Analysis, Astrophysical Journal 750:113, May, 2012.
- S. Mathur et al, A Uniform Asteroseismic Analysis of 22 Solar-type Stars Observed by Kepler, Astrophysical Journal 749:152, April, 2012.
- W. F. Welsh et al, KOI-54: The Kepler Discovery of Tidally Excited Pulsations and Brightenings in a Highly Eccentric Binary, Astrophysical Journal Supplement 197:4 November, 2011
- V. Silva Aguirre et al, Constructing a one-solar-mass evolutionary sequence using asteroseismic data from Kepler, Astrophysical Journal Letters 740:L2, August, 2011.
- D. Latham et al, A First Comparison of Kepler Planet Candidates in Single and Multiple Systems, Astrophysical Journal Letters 732:L24, May, 2011.
- W. J. Chaplin et al, Evidence for the Impact of Stellar Activity on the Detectability of Solar-like Oscillations Observed by Kepler, Astrophysical Journal Letters 732:L5, May, 2011.
- J. Jenkins et al, Discovery and Rossiter–McLaughlin Effect of Exoplanet Kepler-8b, Astrophysical Journal Letters 724:L1108, December, 2010.
- C. Middour et al, Kepler Science Operations Center Architecture, Proc. SPIE, Vol. 7740, 77401A, July, 2010.
- T. Klaus et al, Kepler Science Operations Center pipeline framework, Proc. SPIE, Vol. 7740, 77401B , July, 2010.
- T. Klaus et al, The Kepler Science Operations Center pipeline framework extensions, Proc. SPIE, Vol. 7740, 774018, July, 2010.
- S. McCauliff et al, The Kepler DB, a database management system for arrays, sparse arrays, and binary data, Proc. SPIE, Vol. 7740, 77400M, July, 2010.
- H. Wu et al, Data validation in the Kepler Science Operations Center pipeline, Proc. SPIE, Vol. 7740, 774019, July, 2010.
- J. Li et al, Photometer performance assessment in Kepler science data processing, Proc. SPIE, Vol. 7740, 77401T, July, 2010.
- B. Clarke et al, A framework for propagation of uncertainties in the Kepler data analysis pipeline, Proc. SPIE, Vol. 7740, 774020, July, 2010.
- J. Jenkins et al, Overview of the Kepler Science Processing Pipeline, Astrophysical Journal Letters 713:L87, April, 2010.
- Additional publications acknowledging my work on the Kepler data analysis pipeline can be found in the The Astrophysical Journal and the arXiv .
- Web-Based Architectures: Where Things Are and Where They're Going, SDForum Newsletter, San Jose, CA, September, 2005.
- Eye-Tracking Technology and Analytics, SDForum Newsletter, San Jose, CA, September, 2005.
- Are You Agile or Are You Fragile?, SDForum Newsletter, San Jose, CA, June, 2003.
- A Java/Swing GUI Framework, White paper, iSharp Inc., San Carlos, CA, 2001.
- Lutris: The Enhydra Java/XML Application Server, SDForum Newsletter, San Jose, CA, April 2000.
- Software Conventions and Process, White paper, 2000.
- A Chat with James Gosling, SDForum Newsletter, San Jose, CA, Feb. 2000.
- Datafusion Software Conventions, White paper, Datafusion, San Francisco, CA, 1997.
- Datafusion Configuration Management, White paper, Datafusion, San Francisco, CA, 1997.
- Email References, http://www.newt.com/email/references.html.
- Worldtalk Connector for the Internet: Delivery Status Notifications (DSN) Functional Specification, White paper, Worldtalk Corporation, Santa Clara, CA 1997.
- Worldtalk Connector for the Internet: IMAC: Internet Message Access Control, White paper, Worldtalk Corporation, Santa Clara, CA 1997.
- Worldtalk Internet Mail Gateway: 8-bit Character Support Extension, White paper, Worldtalk Corporation, Santa Clara, CA 1996.
- Security Issues for Messaging, Section 2.1.3 "Gateways," Electronic Messaging Association, 1995.
- Worldtalk Internet Mail Gateway: Administration User Interface Definition, White paper, Worldtalk Corporation, Santa Clara, CA 1995.
- J. Peek, B. Wohler, B. Welch, MH & xmh: Email for Users and Programmers, Third Edition, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., Sebastopol, CA, 1995.
- Connecting SAP to the Internet Securely, White paper, SAP AG, Walldorf, Germany, 1993.
- MH Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) with Answers, comp.mail.mh, 1991-present.
- NN Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) with Answers, news.software.nn, 1991-2000.
- A Software Organization called SWORG, White paper, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA, 1989.
- N. Knolle, M. Fong, R. Lang, K. Williams, K. Nitz, A. Algustyniak, B. Wohler, Object-Oriented Development Environments, White paper, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA, 1988.
- G. Hastie, P. Homburger, D. Lee, D. Mason, G. Skinner, and W. Wohler, Exercise Crested Eagle 88 After-Action Report, (TRW contract DC3398A47L), SRI International, Menlo Park, CA, Mar. 1988.
- T. Barker, M. Brown, R. Gilligan, J. Rininger, C. Tran, W. Wohler, Software Specification for the SAC CÂł Testbed, (DARPA contract F-30602-85-C-0073), SRI International, Menlo Park, CA, Dec. 1986.
- T. Barker, D. Cone, B. Fair, K. Poulsen, R. Reining, J. Rininger, C. Tran, W. Wohler, Final Report of the Command, Control, and Communications Testbed for the Strategic Air Command, (DARPA contract F-30602-83-C-0027), SRI International, Menlo Park, CA, Aug. 1986.