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Gary has a strong research focus on sensors designed for use in Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), Automated Driving (AD) and manned spaceflight Aerospace applications. Gary began his career focused on sensors while working for Lockheed Space Operations at Kennedy Space Center, FL from 1984-1992 as an electrical flight-systems engineer. His work responsibilities included installation and calibration/test of sensor arrays, (accelerometers, gyroscopes, pressure, strain-gauges, temperature, hazardous-gas, etc.), located on the Space Shuttle Orbiter, External tank, and Solid Rocket Boosters. Gary worked in Motorola's Sensor Products Division (1993-2005) located in Tempe, AZ, where he was focused on sensor based ASIC and Transducer R&D product development activities (inertial, pressure, chemical, etc.), including Ford's first automotive airbag accelerometer. From 2005 to 2007, he led MEMS research activities and taught multiple graduate level analog and digital ASIC design courses as a professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. From 2007-2009 he served as VP of Engineering at Memsic Inc., located in Andover, MA. Gary worked at Bosch from 2009-2015 as Director of the MEMS Advanced Development Group (ADG) at the Research and Technology Center (RTC) located in Palo Alto, CA. Gary was the Advanced Engineering Global Engineering Director at Delphi Electronics and Safety (E&S) from 2015 to 2018. Gary is currently an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University in the Mechanical Engineering Department and is the course instructor for graduate course ME429, "Commercial MEMS Design", from 2011 to present. Gary is also currently an Engineering Fellow working on manned spaceflight rocket propulsion systems for Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems located at Kennedy Space Center, FL. Dr. O'Brien earned his BSEE from the Florida Institute of Technology, an MSEE from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan |