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                Dr. Firouz Naderi    Previously he spent four years as the program manager of
                  the Origins Program—NASA’s ambitious technology-rich plan to search for evidence of life outside the Solar System.
                   Dr. Naderi’s formal education is in electrical engineering;
                  he received his Ph.D. from University of Southern California (USC) writing his dissertation in the area of digital image processing.
                   He joined JPL in September of 1979. His early work at JPL
                  was on system design of large satellite-based systems for nationwide cellular phone coverage. Dr. Naderi went to NASA Headquarters
                  for two years in the mid-80s to serve as the program manager for the Advanced Communications Technology Satellite (ACTS) the
                  front-runner of today’s multi-beam space-switching commercial satellites. Upon his return to JPL he became the project
                  manager for the NASA Scatterometer (NSCAT) Project aimed at space-based measurement of winds over the global oceans with application
                  to weather forecasting. He was a cofounder of a startup company in the mid-‘80s and consultant to other startup companies
                  in the same period  His 25 years at JPL spans systems engineering, technology
                  development, program and project management as applied to satellite communications systems, Earth remote sensing observatories,
                  astrophiscical observatories and planetary systems. He is the recipient of NASA’s Outstanding Leadership Medal.   | 
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