Mathias Parminder Ghuman joined NASA in 1991 and worked as FPGA and ASIC designer.  Since 2002, Parminder has been working in NASA’s Earth Science Technology Office as the lead for Observation Technology Program. He aims to help nurture groundbreaking new ideas and turn them in to validated demonstrations that could operate in space. Parminder graduated from Johns Hopkins University with an M.S. in Applied Physics, George Washington University with an M.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, and North Carolina A&T State University with a B.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering.