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Dr. David M. Kortenkamp

Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

Dr. Kortenkamp has been working with NASA robotics projects since 1993. He has been the Principal Investigator or co-Investigator on over thirty research grants in the areas of robotics, artificial intelligence, and augmented/virtual reality totaling over $25 million. He was the editor of an MIT Press book on mobile robots and artificial intelligence and co-author of a book chapter in the Springer Handbook of Robotics. He co-authored with Liam Pedersen, David Wettergreen and Illah Nourbakshk a NASA Space Robotics State-of-the-art Assessment report that was presented at NASA HQ.
In addition to his technical expertise in robotics, Dr. Kortenkamp has significant business experience. He invented, patented, and commercialized an electronic procedure platform that is being licensed by numerous Fortune 500 companies and by commercial space companies such as Blue Origin, Intuitive Machines, Sierra Space, and Blue Canyon. Dr. Kortenkamp led the transition of that research project into a commercial, enterprise software product with over $25M in total revenue. That has given him experience in marketing, selling, scaling, and deploying enterprise-level software systems.

_education

  • 1988 B.S. Computer Science
    University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN
  • 1990 M.S. Computer Science and Engineering
    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI
  • 1993 Ph.D. Computer Science and Engineering
    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI

_publications

  • David Kortenkamp and Reid Simmons, Robotic Systems Architectures and Programming, Springer Handbook of Robotics, Springer-Verlag, 2008.
  • David Kortenkamp, R. Peter Bonasso and Debra Schreckenghost, A Procedure Representation Language for Human Spaceflight Operations, in The 9th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space (i-SAIRAS-08).
  • Liam Pedersen, David Kortenkamp, David Wettergreen and Illah Nourbakshk, A Survey of Space Robotics in The 7th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space (i-SAIRAS-03), 2003.