Charles Lee is a Sr. Computer Scientist at NASA Ames Research Center’s Intelligent Systems Division. His previous work at NASA includes design and development of aerospace software in the area of distributed systems, autonomous mission control, robotics, and system health management. Charles Lee received a Ph.D. from the School of Computer Science and Systems Engineering at Oakland University. He has published more that 20 papers in pattern recognition, machine learning and distributed systems. He has been a session chair for IEEE Aerospace conference since 2005.