Terry Fong

Terry Fong is the Deputy Rover Manager for NASA's VIPER lunar rover mission and NASA's Senior Scientist for Autonomous Systems. He is also Chief Roboticist of the Intelligent Robotics Group at the Ames Research Center. Terry previously led development of the Astrobee free-flying robot, which was installed on the International Space Station in 2019. Terry has published more than 150 papers in space and field robotics, human-robot interaction, virtual reality, and planetary mapping. Terry received his B.S. and M.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT and his Ph.D. in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University. Terry is a big fan of Dr. Who, Star Trek, and the Expanse.