Who we are
SimCRAFT LLC is a Texas business providing differentiated software solutions for aerospace and STEM markets. The company was founded by Dr Greg Chamitoff and Dr Nazareth Bedrossian. The founders have extensive experience in modeling, simulation, optimization, trajectory design, flight control design, flight readiness certification, software tools and operations spanning NASA, DOD, DARPA and commercial customers.
MEET OUR TEAM
GREG CHAMITOFF
Greg served as a NASA Astronaut for 15 years, including Shuttle Missions STS-124,126,134 and Space Station long duration missions Expedition 17 and 18. He has lived and worked in Space for almost 200 days as a Flight Engineer, Science Officer, and Mission Specialist. His last mission was on the final flight of Space Shuttle Endeavour, during which he performed two spacewalks, including the last one of the Shuttle era, which also completed the assembly of the International Space Station.
Greg earned his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Cal Poly, M.S. in Aeronautics from Caltech, and Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT. He also holds a Minor and Masters in Planetary Science. He is currently a Professor of Practice in Aerospace Engineering and Director of the AeroSpace Technology Research & Operations (ASTRO) Laboratory at Texas A&M University, which performs research and development in space robotics, autonomous systems, and collaborative VR simulation environments.
Greg is co-author and co-editor of Human Spaceflight Operations, a textbook on the lessons learned from the past 60 years of spaceflight. Chamitoff was a ‘Space Advisor’ on the Hollywood production of Ender’s Game. He also co-created Zero Robotics with NASA and MIT, which is a worldwide space robotics programming competition at the middle and high school level.
NAZARETH (NAZ) BEDROSSIAN
Naz has more than 25 years experience working on NASA Human Space Flight programs including Space Shuttle, International Space Station (ISS), and Space Launch System flight control systems development and transitioning them to operational use. He conceived, led development and transitioned to space operational use optimal trajectories which on ISS has saved NASA approximately $100M to date. He has also led on-orbit accident and anomaly resolution teams and development of systems engineering processes which accelerate and reduce cost for space exploration missions. He is the recipient of the NASA Exceptional Public Service medal. He also established a corporate university fellow program at Rice and Texas A&M universities and has funded graduate education for more than 25 students.
Naz has also ~10 years experience in the energy industry in hardware product and business development roles. Some of the projects he has been involved in are ultrasonic impedance measurement tool that was commercialized and communication in conduit, mesh network nodes with communication and geolocation capability, high temperature fuel cells, wireless communication in conductive fluids, and solid propellant powered actuator.
Naz earned Mechanical Engineering B.S. from the University of Florida, and M.S. and Ph.D. from MIT. He has been an invited speaker and panelist on systems engineering at Texas A&M, interviewed by the American Mathematical Society for a predictive analytics Mathematical Moments podcast, plenary speaker for the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematicians, and invited speaker at Houston Petroleum Club. He has authored more than 60 publications and has been quoted in Boston Business Journal, IEEE and NASA publications.
