Adrian J. Brown received the B.E. degree, with honors, from University College, University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, Australia, in 1994, the Master's degree in computer studies from the University of New England, Armidale, Australia, in 2000, and the Ph.D. degree in Earth and planetary sciences from Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, in 2006. He spent 11 years in the Royal Australian Navy as a Weapons Engineer, followed by a period of contract work as a Software Engineer for IBM. After his Ph.D., he completed a Postdoctoral position at the NASA Ames Research Center. He is currently at the SETI Institute, Mountain View, CA.