Stephen Paris
Aerospace Trajectory Analyst at Paris Aerospace Technologies
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Paris is an aerospace trajectory analyst with over four decades of hands-on experience designing and applying trajectory optimization tools for vehicles ranging from flying cars to interplanetary spacecraft. As an original author and long-time developer of the OTIS optimal trajectory solver—whose OTIS4 release earned NASA Software of the Year and R&D Magazine recognition—he combines deep theoretical knowledge of direct collocation and nonlinear programming with practical software engineering in FORTRAN and Python. After a 36-year tenure at Boeing culminating as a Technical Fellow, he now leads open-source trajectory solver development and prototype demonstrations from Seattle, focusing on real-time and batch-capable optimal control implementations. He regularly supports customers by setting up, debugging and interfacing OTIS cases, and provides training that bridges academic methods with operational needs. An AIAA and SIAM member, he brings rare institutional memory of trajectory analysis evolution and a proven track record of turning advanced numerical methods into reliable industry tools.
9 years of coding experience
MS, Aerospace Engineering, MS, Aerospace Engineering at Iowa State University
Github Skills (10)
x-plane9
simulation6
toolbox6
simulator6
plane5
communications4
matplotlib2
plot2
visualization2
python2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
otisTek/miloPlot
Jan 2017 - Feb 2017
Contributions:19 commits, 1 PR, 17 pushes in 11 days
pythonplotmatplotlibplottingplots
nasa/XPlaneConnect
Jan 2018 - Jan 2019
The X-Plane Communications Toolbox is a research tool used to interact with the X-Plane flight simulator
Contributions:2 comments in 11 months
flighttoolboxcommunicationssimulationinteract
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