NASA

Jason Lohn

Computational Sciences Division
NASA Ames Research Center
MS 269-1
Moffett Field, CA 94035
(650)604-5138   Fax: (650)604-3594
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I lead the Evolvable Systems Group at NASA Ames Research Center. I am closely affiliated with the growing field called evolvable hardware, which is the study of how simulated Darwinian evolution can be used to design and configure electronic and mechanical hardware. I've co-founded a series of successful NASA/DoD evolvable hardware workshops and conferences.

Prior to working at NASA, I was a visiting scholar at Stanford University and before that I worked at IBM Corporation while obtaining my MS and PhD at the University of Maryland at College Park.

The focus of my work is to research and develop search algorithms that can automatically design and optimize hardware systems to bring about increased performance and reliability for current and future NASA missions. Some of my publications and presentations are available. To learn more about my projects, see my group's page on our current research.

 
Some examples of things my group and I have evolved...
 
Evolved Antennas
Evolved MEMS Resonators
Evolved Field Programmable Gate Arrays
Evolved Analog Circuits
Evolved Catalytic Reaction Sets
Evolved Self-replicating Structures in Cellular Automata