I am a career software engineer with over 20 years of experience. I have a B.S. and M.S. from MIT in Aeronautics and Astronautics (more commonly known as Aerospace Engineering), and an M.A. in Astronomy (Astrophysics) from Boston University. 

Published paper in engineering:
Effects of vehicle station-keeping and end-effector disturbance compensation on neutral-buoyancy teleoperation

Published paper in science:
Brute-Force Mapmaking with Compact Interferometers: A MITEoR Northern Sky Map from 128 MHz to 175 MHz

Published paper in software engineering:
Dial-a-Tank: An Interactive GUI Environment for the Construction of DIS Compatible Newtonian Entities