About Asteroid Institute
A program of B612 Foundation, Asteroid Institute brings together scientists, researchers, and engineers to develop tools and technologies to understand, map, and navigate our solar system. As with many frontiers that have come before, the opening of the space frontier will be enabled by mapping. Enabling a comprehensive map of the solar system will support scientific exploration, economic development, and the protection of the Earth from asteroid impacts. To help support this goal, we are building ADAM, the Asteroid Discovery Analysis and Mapping computational platform. Our ability to develop the ADAM platform is made possible by B612 supporters.
Our Team
The Asteroid Institute is a distributed team of dedicated scientists, engineers, and software developers.
Dr. Ed Lu
Principal Investigator & Asteroid Institute Executive Director
Prof. Mario Juric
DiRAC Institute Director & ADAM Project Scientist, Univ. of Washington
Alec Koumjian
Head of Software Engineering, Asteroid Institute
Spencer Nelson
Principal Software Engineer, Asteroid Institute
Joachim Moeyens
Researcher, Asteroid Institute & University of Washington
Kathleen Kiker
Software Engineer, Asteroid Institute
Nate Tellis
Software Engineer, Asteroid Institute
Allan Posner
QA and Testing, Asteroid Institute