Dr. Reg Willson graduated from the University of Waterloo in 1983 with a BASc in Electrical Engineering and received his MSEE and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1994. Following seven years with 3M Corporation he came to work at JPL, where he has been employed since 2001. Dr. Willson is currently the Instrument Engineer for the Mastcam, MAHLI and MARDI science cameras and the Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer on the 2011 Mars Science Laboratory mission.

Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie-Mellon University (1994), dissertation: Modeling and Calibration of Automated Zoom Lenses, advisors: Professors Steven A. Shafer and Takeo Kanade.

M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie-Mellon University (1988), project: A Control Separation Approach to the Specification and Analysis of Discrete State Systems and Controllers, advisor: Professor Bruce H. Krogh.

B.A.Sc. Electrical Engineering (Computer Engineering option), University of Waterloo (1983)

SENIOR MEMBER OF TECHNICAL STAFF
JPL Computer Vision Group, Pasadena California
April 2001 - present

SENIOR RESEARCH ENGINEER / SPECIALIST RESEARCH ENGINEER
3M Engineering Systems Technology Center, St. Paul Minnesota
March 1994 - March 2001

GRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANT
Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
September 1986 - February 1994

MEMBER OF SCIENTIFIC STAFF
Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa Ontario, Canada
May 1983 - August 1986

Camera modeling and calibration, computer vision and electronic imaging.