Meet: Gregory A. Dorais

Co-Principal Investigator of the PSA

Gregory A. Dorais is a Co-Principal Investigator of the PSA and is its project manager as well as its autonomy lead in the Autonomy and Robotics Area at the NASA Ames Research Center.

He was a member of the Remote Agent Executive development team and was the Remote Agent System Integrator for the Deep Space One spacecraft. He also was a co-developer of the IDEA autonomous control system based on the Remote Agent. He was a member of the Design for Safety Program Planning team where he led the Resilient Systems and Operation project. He was also a Co-principal Investigator on a Human-Centered Autonomy project.

He has performed autonomous rover research at JPL and remote sensing research at General Motors Research. At the University of Michigan, he performed autonomy
research, was a member of the rover development team, and developed an automated system for inferring classification and forecasting models from data.

He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in Computer Science with a concentration in Intelligent Systems. His research interests include autonomous
systems, robotics, machine vision, and machine learning.