Dr. Ryan Alimo is a ML/AI scientist at NASA’s JPL and founder of OPAL AI Inc, a technology startup up in the Silicon Beach. Dr. Alimo’s research interests span theory and practice of data-driven optimization, machine vision, and swarm autonomy. He was awarded NASA JPL’s Voyager in 2019 and Discovery Awards in 2020 where his research works were featured in technology highlights of NASA’s JPL in 2019 and 2020. He obtained his PhD from UC San Diego in data-driven optimization followed by a Postdoc at Caltech’s CAST in autonomous systems before joining NASA’s JPL and founding OPAL AI. He is passionate about human-AI Mars exploration and building habits on the Moon and beyond.