Dr. Steve Chien is Head of the Artificial Intelligence Group and a Senior Research Scientist at JPL. He has led the deployment of AI software to a wide range of missions including: Autonomous Sciencecraft on EO-1, Earth Observing Sensorweb, WATCH on Mars Exploration Rover (MER), the Intelligent Payload Experiment (IPEX) CubeSat, and decision support for Science Planning and Automated Data/Downlink Management for the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Rosetta. He is currently supporting the development of an onboard scheduler for the Mars 2020 rover mission, as well as scheduling technologies for the ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station (ECOSTRESS) and Orbiting Carbon Observatory 3 (OCO-3). He has been recognized four times in the NASA Software of the Year competition (1999, 1999, 2005, and 2011). He has received four NASA medals for his work in AI for space (1997, 2000, 2007, 2015).