Curtis Chen

Curtis W. Chen received the B.S. and A.B. degrees in electrical engineering and political science and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, in 1996, 1999, and 2001, respectively. He developed new algorithms for 2-D phase unwrapping of interferometric SAR data. Since 2001, he has been with NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, USA, where he has been involved in radars for Mars landers and Earth-science instruments. He was the Lead System Engineer of the Soil Moisture Active Passive combined active/passive instrument system from subsystem integration through launch.