Meet: Yuri Gawdiak

Co-Principal Investigator of the PSA

Yuri Gawdiak is a Co-Principal Investigator of the PSA and originated its conceptual design. He is currently the program manager for the Engineering Complex Systems program. He has had many roles in the development of the ISS, including Network Engineer and Technical Management Information System manager at NASA headquarters.

He was also on the Space Station Redesign Team B at NASA Langley Research
Center as a Payload Avionics Design Architect and integrated portable computers into the ISS baseline design.

At NASA Johnson Space Center, he worked on the development of payload avionics and developed the Wireless Network experiment for the ISS.

At NASA Ames Research Center, he was the PI for the Wireless Network Experiment on STS-76/Mir 21 and performed research that led to a wireless LAN baseline augmentation on the ISS. He also held management roles in the Aviation Safety Program and led the development of the Surface Movement Advisor system for airport ground traffic management in the Airspace Systems Program.

Prior to his work at NASA, he was a Systems Analyst for the Defense Communication Agency working on the World-wide Military Command and Control system and the Human-Computer Interface lab manager at University of Maryland. He has a B.S from Carnegie Mellon University in Information Systems with a
concentration in Ergonomics.