Karen Gundy-Burlet, Ph.D.
Short Biography.

Karen Gundy-Burlet is a research scientist in the Robust Software Engineering group at NASA-Ames Research Center.  Her current interests are in the application of advanced information analysis techniques to validation and verification of simulation models and Guidance, Navigation and Control (GNC) software.  She was the group lead for the NASA-Ames Intelligent Flight Control program that developed and implemented neural-adaptive algorithms for control of damaged aircraft, and demonstrated and evaluated them in full-motion piloted simulations.  Other research efforts include optimal control of low-thrust spacecraft trajectories, and computational modeling of unsteady flows in turbomachinery with an emphasis on rotor/stator interaction in compressors and hot streak migration in turbines.  Dr. Gundy-Burlet graduated with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from U.C. Berkeley and obtained M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Aerospace Engineering from Stanford

