Tom Cwik

Dr. Tom Cwik leads the Space Technology Program at NASA’s Jet Propulsion

Laboratory. He was formerly Associate Chief Technologist at JPL. In these roles

he is key to strategic planning and the execution of technology research and

development resulting in validated systems that enable new NASA space

missions. These technologies span a wide spectrum and include robotics and

structures, detectors and instruments, physics-based modeling and simulation as

well as communication systems among others. He received his bachelor’s,

master’s and doctorate in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois,

Urbana-Champaign. He joined JPL in 1988 working in a range of advanced

engineering and project activities including antenna design, instrument

development and high-performance computing focusing on high-fidelity modeling

of instrument and electromagnetic systems.