Lukas Mandrake

Lukas Mandrake is a senior researcher and group supervisor of the Machine Learning (ML) and Instrument Autonomy group at JPL since 2002. His group brings ML techniques to bear against a wide range of applied problems in space, science, technology, and medicine. His research focuses on creating ML- based solutions that are interpretable and scientifically defensible (e.g., no “black box‘’), both to help advance physical science on the ground and to capture unexpected or transient events onboard spacecraft. He is also the ML liaison to the Information and Data Science program office at JPL, representing rigorous ML to scientists, engineers, policy-makers, and upper management.