Dr. Manil Maskey is a Senior Research Scientist and Project Manager at NASA. He leads the advanced concepts team for the Inter-Agency Implementation and Advanced Concepts Team (IMPACT), where he is developing innovative data systems and data-driven solutions to challenging science problems. Dr. Maskey also leads the NASA Science Mission Directorate’s Artificial Intelligence Team as part of the open science initiative. Dr. Maskey’s career spans over 23+ years in academia, industry, and government. During that time, he has focused on research and application projects in the area of data systems, cloud computing, machine learning, computer vision, and visualization.

Dr. Maskey is an affiliate faculty at the University of Alabama in Huntsville Atmospheric Science department, a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), chair of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) Earth Science Informatics Technical Committee, member of American Geophysical Union (AGU) and AGU Fall Meeting Planning Committee, member of European Geosciences Union (EGU), and member of Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).