FDL 2017 | LONG-PERIOD COMETS
LONG-PERIOD COMETS // MENTORS PLANETARY SCIENCE MENTOR PETER JENNISKENS petrus.m.jenniskens@nasa.gov Peter Jenniskens is a senior research scientist and meteor astronomer with the SETI Institute. He is best known for recovering, with students and staff of the University of Khartoum, the first meteorite samples from an asteroid studied in space. He is author of the 790 page book “Meteor Showers and their Parent Comets” [Cambridge University Press]
DATA SCIENCE MENTOR SIDDHA GANJU siddhaganju@gmail.com Siddha is a Deep Learning Data Scientist at DeepVision. She graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a Master’s in Computational Data Science. Her work ranges from Visual Question Answering to gathering insights from CERN’s petabyte scale data. She has been a speaker at Strata+Hadoop & StrataAI conferences, and is a member of the Open Leadership Cohort, Mozilla Science Lab.
SPECIALIST ADVISOR PETER GURAL peter.s.gural@leidos.com Pete Gural is a retired program manager and software engineer for Leidos Inc, who worked on image processing exploitation for the intelligence community. Once a hobby, meteor astronomy is now his full time passion, involved in ground/airborne meteor storm campaigns, designed a meteor mirror tracker, developed software variants of transient event detectors in video, including the CAMS software suite.