Randii R. Wessen

Randii Wessen has been an employee of the California Institute of Technology's Jet Propulsion Laboratory since 1984. Randii is currently the A-Team Lead Study Architect in JPL's Innovation Foundry. Prior to this he was the Navigator Program System Engineer, the Telecommunications and Mission Systems Manager for the Mars Program, Manager of the Cassini Science Planning and Operations Element, the Galileo Deputy Sequence Team Chief, and the Voyager Science Sequence Coordinator for the Uranus & Neptune encounters. Randii received his Bachelors of Science in both Physics and Astronomy from Stony Brook University, a MS in Astronautics from the University of Southern California, and a PhD in Operations Research from the University of Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom. He co-authored the books “Neptune: the Planet, Rings and Satellites” and “Planetary Ring Systems.”