Christopher Lim is a member of the Robotic Software Systems group at JPL. He has over 10 years experience developing the Darts/Dshell, ROAMS and EDL/Dsends dynamics simulation platforms supporting the JPL Mars Science Lander, Phoenix Mars Lander, Mars Rover, Cassini, and StarDust missions. Prior to joining JPL, Christopher developed real-time industrial control and earthquake recording software.

• Engineers Degree (Ph.D. equivalent) in Aeronautics (California Institute of Technology)
• M.S. Aeronautics (California Institute of Technology)
• B.S. Aeronautical Engineering (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

• Robotics Software Engineer III, Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
  • Member of the DARTSLab team that developed the DSENDS Darts/Dshell package for the dynamics simulation of entry, descent and landing of Mars (MSL, Phoenix), Earth (COMPASS, SIAD) and Lunar (MoonRise) spacecraft.
  • Developed supporting tools such as a fast vector/matrix C++ library, HDF5 real-time data loogers, and a C++ version of Dshell/Darts.
  • Lead software engineer for Dsends models and interfaces to third party simulation packages such as EarthGram and MarsGram.
  • Lead software support engineer for DSENDS (MSL) Monte Carlo simulations.
• Telos Corporation. Developed portable satellite ground systems.
• NDC Systems. Developed industrial control systems.
• Johnson-Grace (division of America On-line). Developed web browser graphics interfaces.
• Kinemetrics, Inc. Developed earthquake recorders and analysis software.

Software development and architecture for scientific and space exploration applications.

• NASA Group Achievement Award for outstanding technical achievement in developing the DSENDS simulator.