Dr. Ganesh J. Pai is Senior Technical Fellow in System Safety Assurance and Principal Researcher at KBR, Inc., contracted as Member of the Scientific Staff at NASA Ames Research Center, where he works in the Robust Software Engineering technical area of the Intelligent Systems Division. Prior to that, he was Senior Researcher at the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE), Germany.
Ganesh engages in research aimed at innovations in safety, dependability, and assurance of increasingly autonomous aerospace systems and software. He has published over 50 technical articles on those topics through projects funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), having served as co-investigator for some of those projects. He also serves on the program committees of numerous related international conferences and workshops.
Through his professional practice, Dr. Pai contributes to the safe engineering and operations of Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS) deployed to serve NASA research missions in aeronautics and Earth science. He received the 2014 Agency Honor Award (NASA Group Achievement Award), for his contributions to developing the safety case for a ground-based detect and avoid solution that demonstrated the capability to conduct safe, beyond visual range UAS operations in civil airspace. He is also an active participant in various standardization initiatives, serving as one of the principal editors of the future process guidelines for the development and certification/approval of aeronautical safety-related products implementing AI, ARP6983/ED-324, which is being developed jointly by SAE G-34 and EUROCAE WG-114.
Ganesh graduated from the University of Virginia earning a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering. He also holds a B.E. in Electronics Engineering from the University of Bombay (Mumbai).
He is a senior member of the IEEE and the AIAA, and a member of SAE.