SPACE SYMPOSIUM SPEAKERS

Dr. Kiruthika Devaraj

Vice President, Avionics & Spacecraft Technology
Planet Labs

Dr. Kiruthika Devaraj is a VP of Engineering at Planet where she leads the spacecraft and AI research teams that designs  and builds Planet’s satellites and develops AI models that are deployed at the edge and the cloud. Over the last ten years, she has led Planet’s Dove and Smallsat Avionics platforms supporting high resolution and hyperspectral missions. She developed the radio and communication systems, advanced payloads including Real Time Insights using next-gen GPUs and onboard AI, as well as as real time connectivity onboard satellites using intersatellite links. Prior to Planet, Kiruthika was a radio astronomer at Stanford University and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory where she built instruments that were deployed at multiple radio telescopes including the Argus instrument at the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia. She has a M.S. and Ph.D. in EE from Georgia Tech where she worked on NASA mission Juno supporting the microwave radiometer instrument to study the deep atmosphere of Jupiter. 

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