Matthew William L. Smith

Matthew W. Smith is a member of the Flight System Systems Engineering group at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He served as the ASTERIA Project System Engineer and Payload Lead during development, and as Mission Manager during the primary mission. His research interests are in systems engineering for space-based optical instruments, modeling and simulation, and multi-disciplinary design optimization. He holds a B.A. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University, an M'Phil in Engineering from the University of Cambridge (UK), and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.