[1] Rocket propulsion and gasdynamics, high power microwaves and directed energy, object-oriented software engineering, space mission design.
ince 2016, Kevin has served as the systems director of Breakthrough Starshot, a $100M initiative to send a beam-driven probe to Alpha Centauri within the next generation.
He then attended graduate school at the California Institute of Technology, where he received his master's degree in science in 2001.
[6][3] Beginning with his Ph.D. thesis on Microwave Thermal Propulsion, his work spans theoretical, computational and experimental domains for the general problem of space access and economics.
The Ames MDC was the first of its kind to make extensive use of groupware, for example in pooling knowledge to create and maintain spacecraft parts databases.