LARRY A. BERGMAN

Dr. Larry Bergman is the Manager of the Space Mission Information Systems Technology Program Office at JPL, and is responsible for providing direction of basic mission-oriented IT research that ultimately will transition into interplanetary spacecraft, ground systems, and engineering and design. Over his 34 year career in NASA, he has held a variety of flight project engineering roles, line and project management assignments, and conducted research in fiber optics, photonic systems, computer networks, satellite networks, supercomputer systems, visualization systems, and HDTV systems.

A few career highlights include: contribution to the design and modeling of the interface circuits for the main Viking and Voyager on-board flight computers, Principal Engineer and Architect for the first fiber optic space shuttle experiment to actively measure radiation effects, Project Engineer for JPL’s first Supercomputer Center, co-Investigator for the DARPA/NSF CASA Meta-supercomputer gigabit network testbed, PI for the first trans-Pacific Japan/US satellite ATM/HDTV testbed, PI for the first satellite based tele-astronomy experiment using the Keck telescope, and Project Manager of the HTMT petaflops concept study team involving more than a dozen institutions.

He has over 100 publications, four patents, has lectured at local universities, consulted to both the photonics and motion picture industries, and is a member of several engineering honor and professional societies, including IEEE, SMPTE, AES, and AFCEA.

Dr. Bergman holds a B.S. degree (1973) from the California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, a M.S. degree (1974) from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, and a Ph.D. degree (1983) from Chalmers University of Technology (CTH), Gothenburg, Sweden, all in electrical engineering. His Ph.D. thesis focused on the system design of multi‑gigabit/sec fiber optic local area networks, and culminated in prototyping an experimental 5 Gbit/s fiber optic network testbed.