Bobak Ferdowsi
| Bobak Ferdowsi | |
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Ferdowsi at SpaceUp Houston in November 2012
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| Born |
November 7, 1979 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Citizenship | American |
| Education |
American School in Japan University of Washington Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Engineering career | |
| Discipline | Systems engineering |
| Employer(s) | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Projects |
Cassini–Huygens Mars Science Laboratory |
Bobak Ferdowsi (Persian: بابک فردوسی) (born November 7, 1979) is an American systems engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He served on the Cassini–Huygens and Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity missions.
Ferdowsi gained brief media fame in August 2012, when he wore an unusual mohawk hairstyle during the Curiosity landing. It unexpectedly became an iconic image of the event with coverage in the news and social media, U.S. President Obama even commented on the popularity of "Mohawk Guy".
Ferdowsi was born November 7, 1979, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is of Persian descent; his father immigrated to the United States from Iran. His parents met in college. Soon after birth he moved to the San Francisco Bay Area where he stayed until age 11, then moved to Tokyo in 1991, where he attended the American School in Japan, graduating in 1997.
The same year, he enrolled at the University of Washington where he majored in aerospace engineering, a childhood dream. While there he did research under Nobel Laureate Hans Georg Dehmelt in the Department of Physics. In 2001, he enrolled at MIT and joined the Lean Aerospace Initiative where he stayed until 2003.
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