Maria Bualat

Ms. Maria Bualat is the K10 systems engineer and has served as a deputy group Lead for the Intelligent Robotics Group (IRG) since 2005. Ms. Bualat has been at NASA Ames Research Center since 1987 and has been working in the mobile planetary robotics field since 1995. Ms. Bualat managed several projects for both the Science Mission Directorate and Exploration Systems Mission Directorate including: Mars Technology Program's ARC Rover Testbed project, MIDP instrument integrations on the K9 and K10 rovers, and ETDP's Human-Robot Site Survey project. Ms. Bualat received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering (1987) from Stanford University and M.S. in Electrical Engineering (1992) from Santa Clara University.