Gautam Vasisht
Dr. Vasisht is a research scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He completed his PhD in astronomy from Caltech in 1996 (working on neutron star astrophysics) and was there as a postdoc until late 1997 when he joined the staff at JPL. From 1998-2005 he worked on combining the Keck I and II as an interferometer, and then spent two years at ESO as visiting scientist working to improve the VLT interferometer. Since 2008 he has worked on Project 1640 as co-PI.