Dmitriy L. Bekker

Dmitriy Bekker is Chief Technologist of the Space Systems Implementation Branch at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab and supervisor of the Processing Architectures and Algorithms Section. He is the Image Processing FPGA Lead on the NASA Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission and the Onboard Vision Processing Lead for NASA's Dragonfly mission. Dmitriy's area of expertise is hardware/software engineering with a focus on spacecraft on-board processing, embedded machine learning, FPGAs, digital signal processing, and computer architecture. He received his M.S. and B.S. degrees in Computer Engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology in 2007. Prior to joining APL, Dmitriy worked at NRL, JPL, and Draper.