Will Coben
NASA Flight Controller at NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Houston, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolWill Coben is a NASA flight controller with 11 years of technical experience, currently supporting Boeing Starliner and Artemis docking and undocking operations from Houston. Trained and certified in ascent, entry, and docking, he combines mission-critical operations expertise with a background in mechanical engineering from Rice University. As a solar astrophysicist at NASA Goddard and American University, he contributes to scientific software—notably back-end development for the widely used SunPy project, improving coordinate transforms and enabling large-data workflows with Dask. Will’s hands-on roots include leading a 3D printer maker space and running prototyping workshops, reflecting a practical knack for complex hardware-software integration. He brings a rare mix of flight operations discipline, scientific data processing, and maker-level prototyping to spacecraft mission support and solar physics.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mechanical Engineering at Rice University
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coordinate-transformation10
python10
wcs10
numpy10
astropy10
solar10
data-analysis10
data-science9
dask8
astronomy8
jupyter-notebook6
figure6
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
sunpy/sunpy
Jan 2018 - Jan 2023
SunPy - Python for Solar Physics
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Data Scientist
Back-end Developer & Data ScientistContributions:6 releases, 564 reviews, 267 commits in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Will primarily contributed to the scientific analysis and data processing aspects of the SunPy project. Their work involved implementing coordinate transformations, fixing transformations related to Heliographic Stonyhurst (HGS) frames and cartesian representations, and developing code for differential rotation. They also added support for Dask arrays in the map factory, enabling the use of large datasets. Their contributions are primarily related to the core data analysis and scientific functionalities of the project.
physicspythonsolarsimulationpython-3
wtbarnes/chiantipy-talk-scipy-2017
May 2017 - Jul 2023
Contributions:61 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 3 months
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