Biography

With a Ph.D. in Engineering from Texas A&M University and 23+ years of professional experience, Gordon has spent the past 17 years working at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, where he is currently in charge of Testing and Evaluation of Human Interfaces for the Human Landing System Program at NASA. He also serves as the Human Factors Technical Discipline Lead at NASA JSC and the JSC Human Systems Integration Lead. He has over 23 years of teaching experience, having been an active faculty member at four universities, teaching consistently every year since 2001 to the present, and is currently faculty at both Georgia Tech and the University of Houston, where he teaches human factors, human centered design, and experimental design methods.

At NASA he has served as the PI and PM of multiple projects, including data mining methods to use operational data to solve current research questions, the development of a 3D-Space Utilization System combining active RFID and depth camera technology, and is currently engaged in development of a lunar rover motion simulator as well as a cross-governmental project utilizing the NAMRU-D simulator known as the Disorientation Research Device (e.g., the “Kraken”) for simulation of Lunar Landing.

He works across multiple programs and projects including Gateway, Commercial Crew, Orion, and is particularly active in the assessment of piloting interfaces for manual control of spacecraft, spending most of his time as the co-chair of the HLS program’s Joint Test Panel working on the challenges associated with lunar landing.

In addition to his NASA and academic experience, he has collaborated on multiple projects with the US Department of Defense, including the US Air Force Research Laboratory, US Army Program Executive Office Soldier, and the Naval Medical Research Unit - Dayton.

Prior to his time at NASA, he worked with companies including Compaq Computers, Dell Computers, Occidental Petroleum, Amoco, British Petroleum, ELF Atochem, and Marathon Oil, where he worked on topics associated with human factors, human centered design, safety, and industrial hygiene.